traumas

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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Both Clark and Mary wrestle with their individual traumas, but the specific points of their histories are explored with less interest than the Backrooms themselves.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

Eger dismissed that notion, saying there was no hierarchy of traumas.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"Bringing the Sunday for Sammy show back after Covid and the financial traumas it caused seemed like an impossible dream," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

His theory was that the problems of many troubled patients rested in forgotten psychic traumas, and through free association and the interpretation of dreams the key to the problems could be unlocked.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady