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Among human rights workers this story is a clich6. Professor C., a historian, is leaving work after his third long week of interviewing torture survivors. To- day he interviewed three refugees from Rwanda, each for two or three hours. When he began this project, the torture survivors represented the innocent victims of the brutal exploitation of social tensions for political purposes. He was particularly moved by many of the survivors' renouncements of retribu- tion. He was determined to document the atrocities they suffered despite the immensity of his task in the face of limited resources. Once he is home, his wife continues the morning's conversation about her ailing grandmother. However, Professor C. is not listening. Lately, his wife's problems seem too small to him, and he is always thinking about his subjects' torture episodes instead. Besides, he is tired and depressed from the demands on his time, the accumulation of sleepless nights, and the recent quarrels with his wife. When she asks him about his day, he doesn't feel like talking about it. "What's the point," he thinks,"no one can ever understand what I heard to- day." But what makes his troubles particularly unbearable is his new suspicion that several of the survivors he interviewed may have committed human rights abuses themselves. So, six months later, disillusioned and angry about the experience, Professor C. lets the transcripts collect dust in his closet. Analyz- ing them would be too painful; his emotions and marriage have rebounded, so the project is abandoned. Traumatized. Burned out. It is obvious that these are his problems. If he leaves the project unfinished, he will be all right. But he will always know that the project was not completed. He will wonder why he is not cut out for this work. Too bad, because he was fascinated by it and the field is wide open for him. And what about the"innocent"torture survivors who gave their time and stories to him? They expected him to record their voices for the world. He has failed them, too. Professor C.'s reaction to the stress of his work was predictable and possibly preventable. He is experiencing something that has been termed secondary

An ideal victim: Idealizing trauma victims causes traumatic stress in human rights workers