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Can we be traumatized from a distance?

Images of current conflicts are paraded on social media, making extreme violence seem closer and more immediate. Bruno Boniface, a psychiatrist specializing in traumatology, explains the causes of the sometimes morbid attraction and gives the keys to protect yourself from it.

The greater the geographical proximity of the tragedy, the more we sympathize, we readily think. Yet we are scrolling through social media from morning to night, coming from Eastern Europe or the edge of Gaza, with heart-wrenching testimonies, images of corpses in hospitals, buildings covered in bones, fist-pump, mass-distributed photos shown to parliamentarians.

The purpose is to convey, alert, promote or disseminate propaganda. Sometimes there is no specific goal, just surprise. Can we develop trauma remotely? Bruno Boniface, a psychiatrist at Biquetre Hospital near Paris who specializes in psychotrauma, explains what’s behind our use of violent images and gives us keys to protect ourselves.

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Source: Le Figaro

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