trauma
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Has he always grasped these causal links between his childhood trauma and his subsequent career?
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
In her letter, Bagula explained that when families are separated, displaced, detained or removed from their communities, schools are often left to respond to the resulting trauma and educational disruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
In a social media post, Waxman wrote that "victims need confidence that the justice process is fair and based on evidence, not myths and false assumptions about rape and trauma".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The trauma of that experience was probably far deeper and more injurious than we wanted to admit, so we just sort of sleepwalked as events cascaded around us, feeling emotionally distanced and impotent.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
“You can’t frighten me. I’ve already had my trauma for the day.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, says this has put pressure on memoirists to push the envelope and find ever-more-shocking traumas to mine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“He had problems, possibly certain childhood traumas that had affected him. He was misunderstood. Underneath I think he was a caring and sensitive person.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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
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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