The poor region would allocate some of the increase in labor to producing good 2 and compete with the rich country, numbing the impact on the terms-of-trade.
A composite score is constructed using the total of the frequency plus intensity scores for the 17 symptoms of reexperiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance 0 numbing, and increased arousal.
Freud's ideas about the patient's defensive efforts to control the repetition were assimilated into the denial or numbing phase of the two-dimensional model.
For the other scales, rates of decline were 21 % for avoidance, 21 % for numbing and 38 % for hyperarousal, yet treatment effect remained significant in the model.
Sertraline was superior to placebo on 15 of 17 symptoms, especially in the numbing and hyperarousal clusters.
Dewey's pragmatism, too, offers a more hopeful guide to action than the numbing irrelevance of contemporary cultural theory.
The second dimension involved defensive efforts to deny the trauma, including emotional numbing, amnesia, and other attempts to suppress or avoid the trauma.
In the psychiatric literature, dissociation is characterized by the victim having subjective experiences of emotional numbing, derealization, depersonalization, and perceptual alterations during the trauma.
