Keeping Walter Bartoli, a former physician and general practitioner, as her coach for 20 years despite consistent pressure from the outside for change has set Bartoli apart even in a sport full of deep, sometimes traumatic family connections.
She shows only brief performances from her script by the aspiring actors, and instead interviews them at length about the case and their interest in it, eliciting speculations and reminiscences in addition to deep and traumatic personal stories, which they divulge in the hope of being cast.
It is a stark reminder that at 19, I was in the early stages of deep post-traumatic stress disorder.
Although the previous probability of finding a macrovascular cause was lower in patients in whom no digital subtraction angiography was performed, as they were on average older and more often had a deep non-traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage, we cannot rule out missing some small arteriovenous malformations or dural arteriovenous fistulas.
The vaguely mocking way he is so frequently represented in contemporary Chinese art hints at a deeper post-traumatic anxiety and, perhaps, an urge to exorcise him.
The word itself triggers such a deep emotional and traumatic response that reason is gone," he said.
"The issues we are dealing with are so deep and so traumatic," she said, and included addiction, childhood abuse and domestic violence.
Tapping deep into potentially traumatic subject matter, The Naked Self is an extremely confronting experience, but after sobbing in the privacy of the booth I left feeling lighter and clearer.
"Due to the nature and character of the war, its deep wounds and traumatic effects we need the long-term approach, the process of reconciliation will be trans-generational.
