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Psychic Trauma in an Israeli Child: Relationship to Environmental Security

This paper describes the etiology, dynamics and therapy of a case of somnambulism in an eleven-year-old child who underwent a trauma following the injury of his father in an Israeli security operation. Implications of this case for the theory of the “constructive trauma” are discussed.

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