ABSTRACT
Many professionals are also secret survivors, and then there are those who publicly call themselves survivor-professionals. Similarly, the non-survivor professional also speaks different languages when presenting court reports as opposed to advocating for a patient's rights. Multiple states and languages are demanded of all of us. May all survivors reading (whether professionals or not) take on board deep intention for voices to be heard, for toxic silences to end, and may all professionals (whether survivors or not) appreciate the genuine moral commitment that underlies the academic and research contributions. Such collaboration, authors felt, with Anna's agreement, provided common sense, and common sense, as the psychoanalyst Bion always said, is not common. However, truth is more complex. Some survivors can write of their experiences in a way that contains the unbearable, whilst some professionals, saturated with toxic secondary traumatisation, cannot.
