Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Women’s September 11th: Rethinking the International Law of Conflict,” Harvard International Law Journal 47, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 25. 2. The “walking corpses” is Bruno Bettelheim’s term in The Informed Heart (New York: Free Press, 1960), p. 151. Psychiatrist and author Henry Krystal “affirms that psychogenic death can occur if the victim of catastrophic trauma completely surrenders to the situation in which no action is perceived as possible. If this surrender occurs, he/she falls into a state of immobility (catatonia), and abandons all life-preserving activity. He calls this a ‘potential psychological “self-destruct” mechanism’ and affirms that, once the process of total surrender starts it is no longer voluntarily terminable but may only be stopped by the intervention of an outside caretaker, and that, if this does not happen, the victim will die.” Krystal cited in Carole Beebe Tarantelli, “Life within Death: Towards a Metapsychology of Catastrophic Psychic Trauma,”
