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Loss, Trauma, and Human Resilience
loss , trauma , and Human Resilience Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events? George A. Bonanno Teachers College, Columbia University Many people are exposed to loss or potentially traumatic derived from individuals who have experienced significant events at some point in their lives, and yet they continue to psychological problems or sought treatment, theorists have positive emotional experiences and show only minor working in this area have often underestimated and misun- and transient disruptions in their ability to function. Un- derstood Resilience , viewing it either as a pathological state fortunately, because much of psychology's knowledge or as something seen only in rare and exceptionally healthy about how adults cope with loss or trauma has come from individuals. In this article, I challenge this view by review- individuals who sought treatment or exhibited great dis- ing evidence that Resilience in the face of loss or potential tress, loss and trauma theorists have often viewed this type trauma represents a distinct trajectory from that of recov- of Resilience as either rare or pathological.
experience subthreshold symptom levels. Resilient individ-uals, by contrast, may experience transient perturbations in normal functioning (e.g., several weeks of sporadic preoc-
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