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“hamartia”(sin),or a tragic flaw which is woven into their characters. The “hamartia” is some quality
upon which civilization, human freedom and human well-being depend-qualities such as courage,
wisdom, intelligence, piety, resoluteness, integrity and concern for others-that are liable in certain
unforeseeable situations to lead to disaster.
The denial of Greeks to living their own “tragedy” poses an unrelenting problem for all human service
delivery systems, because tragedy is what brings people to despair and to catharsis. Traumatic
experience creates tragic dilemmas that trap individual trauma survivors in the everlasting moment of
the traumatic events and paralyzes their capacity for self-actualization, and growth. If we cannot
recognise an