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How to recover from trauma

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Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault.

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We speak with trauma specialist Karesten Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, about how people who have experienced trauma and violence can overcome it.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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