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Article: Anticipatory awareness of emotionally charged targets by individuals with histories of emotional trauma.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
- Author:
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Individual vulnerability to stress is apparently determined partly by genetic-constitutional and partly by psychological factors. With regard to the latter, main weight should be afforded to traumatic experiences from the past, especially those of early childhood, which have sensitized the person concerned to certain current stressors. This led the first author to infer the existence of a personal sensitization factor (PSF), representing a dormant intrapsychic conflict resulting from the internalization of an early traumatic experience or, for that matter, a traumatic object-relationship that has sensitized the individual to life events "congruent" with the original ...