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I use the term "portkey," which I borrowed from Harry Potter, to capture the profound impact of emotional trauma on our experience of time.
Robert D. Stolorow: Trauma And The Hourglass Of Time Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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I use the term portkey to refer to any experience that returns one to an experience of traumatization.
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It is what I describe as a portkey to retraumatization.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Economic Crisis as Collective Trauma 2009
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For example, if you call the portkey with this code:
Wizard News 2009
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For example, if you call the portkey with this code:
Wizard News 2009
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And if you missed it, you can portkey to our last concert coverage here or find out about future concerts across the country here.
How To Tell You’re At A Wizard Rock Show » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Bush's most infamous portkey, one that led us into war with Iraq, was the bogus threat of weapons of mass destruction.
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Even the current economic collapse can reanimate the feelings of helplessness and terror spawned by 9/11, and McCain has attempted to exploit this portkey too by emptily claiming that, wizard-like, he alone knows how to fix the situation.
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Till then in case you want to try your hands at some spells or charms, you can use this portkey for your journey to the magicland.
Archive 2008-09-01 bhags 2008
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And more abominable still, there is Palin's ongoing smear against Obama, accusing him even now of "palling around with terrorists," as if he were in league with Osama Bin Laden himself, a dangerous portkey to 9/11 that has incited crowds to the brink of violence.
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