What is trauma?A trauma is not merely a terrible event, though it is very much that, too. It is a terrible event that has not been adequately processed, understood and unpicked, and that has – through neglect – been able to cas...
Catherine Malabou: What is a Psychic Event? Freud and Contemporary Neurology on TraumaCatherine Malabou What is a Psychic Event Freud and Contemporary Neurology on TraumaNew York Review of Books
Although many definitions of trauma are based in the events that happen, some experts recognize that the events might not be as important as the way the event impacts a person (McCann & Pearlman, 1992). When considering trauma, what is of utmost importance is recognizing that the person who...
How a Psychologist Copes With a Trauma PTSD is a disorder that develops at least one month after a traumatic event and includes many symptoms. Trauma 4 Min Read What It Means to Be Emotionally Detached Emotional detachment is the inability or unwillingness to connect with others on an em...
T he term psychological trauma has been applied in so many contexts by so many people that it has lost some of its original meaning. Often, trauma is used to refer both to negative events that produce distress and to the distress itself. Technically, "trauma" refers only to the event, ...
: TRIGGERS, HEALING AND ADVOCACY TRAUMA IS THE RESPONSE TO A DEEPLY DISTRESSING OR DISTURBING EVENT THAT OVERWHELMS AN INDIVIDUAL'S ABILITY TO COPE, CAUSES FEELINGS OF HELPLESSNESS, DIMINISHES THEIR SENSE OF SELF AND THEIR ABILITY TO FEEL THE FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONS AND EXPERIENCES. What is ...
Trauma dumping is the act of sharing the details of a traumatic experience without asking for permission or considering the listener. Also known as emotional dumping, it can overwhelm those on the receiving end. Emotional dumping is a relatively typical trauma response to a traumatic event or chil...
Trauma is the result of singular or repetitive exposure to a deeply distressing or disturbing experience or event. Typical memories are reconstructions of past events and so they change and fade as time passes but traumatic memories do not follow this same pattern. Traumatic memories remain as horr...
Trauma and Addiction A traumatic event is any incident – from childhood, adolescence, or otherwise – that overwhelms the ability to process that incident in a healthy and productive manner. Traumatic events can be one-time incidents, such as an accident, surgery, or a death in the family,...
Exposure to a traumatic event can lead to the development of a trauma-related disorder (e.g., acute stress disorder, PTSD).Answer and Explanation: There are at least two ways to answer this question. First, it can be argued that type 1 trauma, a discrete and non-continuous trauma (e...