trauma
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Before the ad featuring her mother, Acton had spoken openly about her trauma.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Freyd, a psychology professor and trauma researcher, took notice.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
The first is trauma bonding — people using others to regulate their emotions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
A number of candidates are people whose lives were transformed that day or in the wars that followed, but trauma or bereavement have not spared them from personal attacks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
The trauma to Manson’s geology had come not from within the Earth, but from at least 100 million miles beyond.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
For some, it has worsened their traumas, it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Lincoln’s fate has been the most heavily publicized, but it isn’t the only aircraft carrier to suffer these traumas.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Posing painful questions to ourselves about our own traumas and struggles can be therapeutic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Such overwhelming traumas tear at the bonds that hold cultures together.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
We shall refer later on to those other exactly similar cases of cyclical depression which can nevertheless easily be traced back to mental traumata.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Absorption takes place from the inner surface of the uterus or from traumata in the genital canal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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