Depending on the contexts in which it is used and criticized, the concept of trauma is varyingly defined. One example is Freud’s psychoanalytical approach, where it, among others, describes psychological aspects of children’s discovery of adult sexuality. In the medical/psychological PTSD diagnosi...
Trauma is commonly defined as exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violation (DSM-V, APA, 2013) Recovery from Trauma is moving from the Victim to the Survivor. “In the middle of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer” Albert Camus...
Childhood trauma in bipolar disorder Trauma is defined by DSM-IV-TR as: * Experiencing, witnessing, or confronting an event that involves "actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the bodily integrity of the self or others" * An emot...
In other words, trauma is defined by theexperience of the survivor. Two people could undergo the same noxious event and one person might be traumatized while the other person remained relatively unscathed. It is not possible to make blanket generalizations such that “X is traumatic for all who...
Psychosis, as defined by theDSM-5, includes: Delusions: Fixed false beliefs that are resistant to contrary evidence Hallucinations: Sensory experiences without external stimuli Disorganized thinking: Incoherent or tangential speech Grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior: Unpredictable agitation or ca...
“Trauma” is commonly defined as an exposure to a situation in which a person is confronted with an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to self or others’ physical well-being (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Specific types of client trauma ...
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Getzfeld & Schwartz (2012) defined PTSD as, ““An anxiety disorder that typically occurs after being exposed to a traumatic event such as war or violence; warning signs consist of: anxiety, the avoidance of stimuli linked with the trauma, flashbacks in which the traumatic event is relived ...
It would have helped had he defined “humanism” to begin with. I think he means that experience still matters, particularly one’s own experience of events such as depression. Continue Reading >> FacebookTwitterEmail Stephanie Foo went through hell, finally coming to terms with C-PTSD Posted...
As defined by the American Psychological Association (APA),traumais an “emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, sexual or physical abuse, or natural disaster.” PTSD is the mental health disorder that can develop from it; while not all trauma leads to PTSD, the majority of...