Psychological trauma

psychotherapy, this manifest preference influences the understanding and treatment of trauma. Since trauma is an “event inside a person’s head” (Henry, 2006, p. 383), traditional interventions target mainly cognitive processes, while the body and its advices are set aside. However, in the ‘biopsychosocial trap’ of PTSD, we can refute to see the intimate interconnectivity between body and mind. Beside psychological states, it is in the body that a…

It is disturbing to acknowledge that the American children are experiencing trauma at an alarming rate. Trauma just like the author posits has long term negative effects which affect the development of children physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually. Affected development in children leads to retardation some times and can even cause worse effects like being suicidal or homicidal. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs when a child or teenager undergoes an event or experience…

“Repetition compulsion” (Potamianou 945) is utilized to alleviate the tensions produced by trauma. However, the process results in two paradoxes that make it difficult for the mind to achieve alleviation from trauma (Potamianou 946). The first paradox is the “presence of what is absent” (Potamianou 947), which develops when traumatic experiences are kept outside David’s memory while his psychic apparatus is exposed to compulsive repetitions of Dulcie (Potamianou 947). She is the unspeakable…

the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) nosologic classification scheme. PTSD diagnosis has filled an important gap in psychiatric theory and practice. The key to understanding PTSD is the concept of trauma. According to the DSM-III PTSD was conceptualized as being a catastrophic stressor outside the range of normal human experiences. While most people exposed to traumatic events do not develop PTSD, others go on to develop the full-blown…

incest. In the United States alone, a woman is raped every six minutes, in three women and one in six seven men sexually abused by the time they are 18 years old. Sexual abuse is a trauma that leaves profound and lasting effects on a person’s psychological, cognitive, and emotional functioning. The impact and symptoms of trauma have become known as post-traumatic…

Wars are often glamorized and glorified by governments and state officials, when in reality wars are psychologically destructive and life changing events. These tactics that were used to reel in naïve men, failed to expose them with the realities of what was to become of them after the war. The short stories “Soldier’s Home” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” offer an insight to how life really is after war veterans return back home. These stories not only realistically depict how detrimental…

be seen, for they are the ones forever etched into the psyche. Depression, anger, fear, hopelessness, and isolation: these represent the gloomy colors that PTSD has chosen to carve into the canvas that is a victim’s mind using the stiff bristles of trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental condition or injury that maims soldiers and civilians alike who have been dealt a bad hand in life and had to endure emotionally intense situations. Situations like these leave such devastating…

fracturing identity and preserving disorganized and incomprehensible memory flashes of the causal event, trauma breaks the life-narrative of the person, a large part of their loss of identity. The same type of narrative break also applies to communal trauma. A horrific event seems to stop time, severing the pre-trauma past from the present, which only ticks forward on clocks and calendars. The trauma survivor keeps returning to the moment of disruption, replaying the flashes and, at times,…

Ill Individuals, Parenting Teens, Prospective Youth Offenders, and Young Adult at High-Risk. They provide services to many kinds of people from all walks of life. The center offers a program for victims of rape a program to help them cope with the trauma of the crime that was committed. This program the center provides, support groups of victims of rape and assist with hospital emergency room visits. They meet all the victims needs by giving every one of the victims the support and services that…

military experiences such as experiences in combat, military sexual trauma, and separations from family well as health and psychological problems outcomes after having experienced such traumatic events to better understand how service members and veterans cope with such issues. Scholarly articles such as Women at war: Understanding how women veterans cope with combat and military sexual trauma (2011), and Military sexual trauma: Violence and sexual abuse (2007), both provide information that…