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Rethinking Trauma: Post-Traumatic Growth with Richard Tedeschi

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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What Is Catastrophe Theory?

In catastrophe theory there are certain breaking points that you cannot reconstruct what's been broken and have it be in the same form. Different materials break different plastic, steel, whatever. They break it in different times and with a different amount of pressure. Once it's broken, you can't just put it back together and be exactly the same as it was. Same thing with post tramatic growth. I mean, we break, in a way, because of these events, and we put ourselves back together, but we're different. We can't go back to the way we used to be, which is a good thing. In the new version of us, we're maybe better and more than

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