What therapists say that when we talk about trauma?
A definition I like says "The psychological trauma is the individual experience of a single event or enduring conditions under which: The individual's ability to integrate their emotional experience is exceeded or individual experiences (subjectively) a threat to life, physical integrity or mental health. "(Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995 60)
The important part of this definition in my practice is the emphasis in "Single individual experience. You get to define what are traumatic experiences for you, whether or not affect others in the same way. This is not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but his own emotional experience of the event.
In more explicit terms, psychological trauma is the result of extremely stressful events that break their sense of security and the result that they feel powerless, alone and vulnerable in a world dangerous.
Sometimes, therapists talk about "Big T trauma" and "trauma T bit." This is in no way means that any traumatic event are negligible, I understand as a means of broadening the definition and understanding of trauma to include things that can be found in DSM IV (Diagnostic Manual and Statistical of Mental Disorders) Definition. We all examples of Big T trauma: childhood sexual, physical or psychological, natural disasters, experiences of war, serious automobile accidents, rape. Small t trauma can be just as harmful, especially because they tend to occur over time, and reinforce each other. Examples emotional abuse or neglect under way, the experience of shame, humiliation, if ignored, intimidated or ridiculed victims and not be careful. Growing up gay in a homophobic culture is an example of such trauma. All experiments traumatic affect how we perceive the world around us, and our relationships with others.
The psychological effects may be more serious if the injury is:
- Human caused
- Repeated
- Unpredictable
- Multiforme
- Sadist
- He suffered childhood
- Perpetrated by a caregiver
The impact can be mitigated by the existence of a support system at the time of the traumatic event. When you have no family or friends to help you understand the case, normal development is interrupted and various symptoms.
Therapy is crucial to recovery from the effects of traumatic events. Only time will not heal all wounds, regardless of whether the claims of Too old!
I found a passage in The Kite Runner Khaled Hossen be an impressive record of unresolved trauma that can envy, even decades later became the person I am today at the age of twelve, on a cloudy day and very cold in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind an adobe wall in ruins, a look into the alley near the creek frozen. It was there long, but it's not right what they say about the past, I learned how to bury. Because beyond the grasp of his release. With In retrospect, I realize that I was looking at this empty street for twenty-six.
Kathleen Young, Psy.D.
Dr. Young is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. She has been in private practice in Chicago, Illinois since 1992. She incorporates aspects of psychodynamic, relational therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into her approach to psychotherapy. Her career focus has been on treating trauma and its aftermath. She is also an EMDR trained therapist and has completed the Illinois 40-hour Domestic Violence Training. She has coordinated a program dedicated to providing education about and treatment for intimate partner, interpersonal and community violence in the LGBT communities. Dr. Young received her doctorate in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1990. For more information: http://www.drkathleenyoung.com
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