As might be expected, neural empathic responses toward someone in pain are shaped by the affective/social relationship between the observer and the suffering person.
Iraqis who appear to be perfectly normal, coping human beings to outside observers may actually be suffering from varying degrees of P.T.S.D. in the form of frequent nightmares, sleep disturbances, emotional numbness, violent and frightening thoughts, a disregard for danger, irritability, anxiety and fits of anger.
Political science professor Laurent Bouvet, of the thinktank the Jean-Jaurès Foundadviseswhich advises the PS and aims to "promote the study of workers' movements and international socialism and promote democratic and humanist ideas", told The Observer the French left was suffering after abandoning blue-collar workers.
He also said that poverty could not be eliminated without attacking corruption, and he promised to bolster the police force, which observers said was weak and suffering from low morale and outright corruption.
That experience, observers say, has left many members suffering "energy fatigue".In this section What chance co-operation?
In the cavernous shrimp-peeling sheds in Samut Sakhon province south of Bangkok, observers have documented instances of workers suffering physical abuse, remaining unpaid and having their papers confiscated.
Some observers said Mr Kim could be suffering from gout or problems in his hip joint.
However, he felt that Falun Gong spokespersons "overplayed their hand" with the concentration camp allegations, potentially losing credibility in the eyes of neutral observers, despite the real persecution they were suffering.
At least 50 people were killed a day after the observers visited, with activists again claiming they were suffering for protesting in front of the monitors.
At the time I spoke to Hughes, it was late summer in Australia, and the northern part of the Great Barrier Reef was suffering from the worst bleaching that observers had ever seen.
