At the Root of Addiction

"Addiction is never really about fun...
It's always about pain."

- A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read

Psychosocial Trauma and Restitution

Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina

"The concept of “psychosocial trauma” developed by Ignacio Martin-Baro can help us understand the restitution process. He believed that when an injury that affects people has been produced, nourished, and maintained through a certain set of social relations, then individual solutions are not effective.

"The social context responsible for the injury has to be taken into account. A new “social contract” to heal the trauma is needed, incorporating individual and socio-political factors into the equation.

"In the case of the disappeared children, their loss of identity represents a trauma affecting not only their individual lives but also their relationship with society. For this relationship to be restored, the social distortions that took place need to be exposed.

"Restitution brings into focus the trauma’s social dimension, as it provides the wider context for each individual story. Truth and justice must be part of the picture, if the children are to construct a meaningful future for themselves as individuals and as members of society."

This statement makes no sense

Quote from Erick Nicklas, associate commissioner of the Family Permanency Division: "The whole idea of foster care is not to disrupt children's lives."

Foster Care Alumni and Relational Permanence

http://www.chapinhall.org/article_abstract.aspx?ar=1466

Gina Miranda Samuels interviewed 29 young adults who aged out of foster care in order to understand their existing support networks and how they learned to cope with people coming in and out of their lives.

Wearing a Mask to Face the World

http://translucence.multiply.com/journal/item/284/Masks_Repost

"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
- Andre Berthiaume