Charles Figley Quotations

His influence and his work and his testimonial about the real world, especially war veterans, was instrumental in making sure (post-traumatic stress disorder) became an actual diagnosis in 1980.

This is a whole different ballgame, with so many people being displaced, ... We have to push the envelope of the rules that were appropriate in the past. If we wait, people will be stuck in these cavernous shelters.

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

The flooding in New Orleans represents what might be a new chapter in our history, ... The enormity of what we've seen is unprecedented, even fascinating to a degree. We may wind up seeing a lot of disassociation as we work through it.

You start to develop a kind of anxiety when flooded with this type of information.

She said that's how she learned to cope, by thinking about how we're all stripped leaves in a sense, ... That's a healthy way to look at it.

It's a way of coping with the challenge brought on by remembering we are living in a hurricane zone.

You need to carefully evaluate your own behavior, ... It's like eating. At some point, you've simply got to push yourself away from the table.