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There is now extensive evidence of the effect of the [[trauma ]] of non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] on behavior later in life.
Glover (1929) reported a case in which the memory of a traumatic circumcision was repressed.<ref name="glover1929">{{REFjournal
Taddio et al. reasoned that:
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It is, therefore, possible that the greater vaccination response in the infants [[circumcised ]] without anaesthesia may represent an <u>infant analogue of a post-traumatic stress disorder</u> triggered by a traumatic and painful event and re-experienced under similar circumstances of pain during vaccination.
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and concluded: