trauma
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Trauma-informed policing recognizes that trauma can affect behavior, memory, emotion, and a survivor’s ability to recount an experience—and that investigative practices themselves can either reduce or compound that trauma and any subsequent investigative challenges.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Sometimes it misses grief, trauma, a broken relationship, poor sleep or a life lived out of alignment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
"The 18-year-old girl suffering from severe mental illness and near-debilitating trauma no longer exists," her attorneys said.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Columnist Elizabeth Bernstein explores the factors that psychologists, sociologists and other experts believe are driving it, from social-media algorithms to changing therapeutic approaches and a broadening definition of trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Although there is no one universally accepted definition of resilience, it is generally understood as the ability to bounce back from hardship and trauma.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
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
While these are in many respects traditional songs, this is music that hits you on a subliminal level, where a series of major traumas and minor victories fuse into a bleak worldview streaked with hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Such overwhelming traumas tear at the bonds that hold cultures together.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
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
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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