Nearly all of Jorgensen’s patients had experiences of trauma: physical or sexual abuse, incest, domestic violence, rape, abandonment. Arthur Blank, one of the first psychiatrists to recognize the struggles of Vietnam veterans who returned from the war, characterized trauma as an experience that a person doesn’t have “the capacity to integrate, digest, narrate … a foreign body in the psyche.” But the inability to assimilate trauma, he warned, can afflict a therapist as well. “As a clinician, I’ve seen a lot of denial that’s based on an inability to shoulder the burden of treating,” he said in an interview. “I’ve had many, many therapists talk to me about this: ‘I don’t know what to do, how can I treat these people?