7 sentences with “trauma”

Yes. A love trauma, from which I've just recovered. Long story, Jack.

Although the boy still has nightmares from time to time, he has coped as many children who have suffered trauma do.

World War I provided the trauma, bloodshed and scepticism towards liberalism and socialism that underpinned the rise of fascism.

"There are not many effective remedies for head injuries," says Dr Michael Walker, director of the stroke and trauma department at the National Institute of Neurological Conditions and Stroke. "This therapy is promising."

Also, there was no sympathy in European (or American) culture for psychological problems. To be unable to function because of trauma was to be "weak" or "insane", with all the social and cultural stigma those terms invoked.

Some progress was made in treating cases of shell shock through the application of the 'talking cure', an early form of therapy related to the practices of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud, but most of the medical community maintained the assumption that trauma was just a sign of weakness.

As Freud's theories developed, he identified a number of common causes linked to childhood trauma that seemed remarkably consistent. He extrapolated these into 'scientific' truths, most of which had to do with the development of sexual identity. This culminated in his three 1905 essays on the theory of sexuality.