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Most literature on the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders deals with the reactions of victims to the hardships they have gone through. Much less attention has been paid to the fate of people who belong to the side of the perpetrators.
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Brom, D., Witztum, E. (1995). When Political Reality Enters Therapy. In: Kleber, R.J., Figley, C.R., Gersons, B.P.R. (eds) Beyond Trauma. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9421-2_13
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