The Abnormal Reaction to an Abnormal Situation

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Even psychiatrists expect the reactions of a man to an abnormal situations to be abnormal in proportion to the degree of his normality. The prisoner passed from the first to the second phase, the phase of relative apathy in which he achieved a kind of emotional death. He stood unmoved while a 12-year-old boy was carried in who had been forced to stand at attention for hours in the snow or to work outside with bare feet because there were no shoes for him in the camp. Disgust, horror and pity eye emotions that our spectator could not really feel any more. Sufferers, the dying and the dead became such commonplace