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  • noun Plural form of trauma.

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Examples

  • It is a phenomenon of the past twenty years or so and I write this as someone who has done a great deal of counselling that victims of traumata are instantly descended upon by counsellors intent upon dragooning them into the first stage of grief even before the disaster has fully registered, and social workers who presume to know their needs.

    Sevdah at the Barbican Jessica 2007

  • Sprains, bruises and traumata of all sorts respond to color as to no other treatment.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Sprains, bruises and traumata of all sorts respond to color as to no other treatment.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Sprains, bruises and traumata of all sorts respond to color as to no other treatment.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Sprains, bruises and traumata of all sorts respond to color as to no other treatment.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Severe early narcissistic traumata cause a fixation of the grandiose self.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Thus, the traumata in early ego development create fixation and encourage regression, most often in cases of borderline and psychotic personality structure.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • In sum, the treatment goal is to attempt to enable this adolescent girl to resume the capacity for progressive development that characterized, despite traumata and less than optimal parenting, her preadolescent years.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Core developmental conflict, ego deficits, flawed character, and childhood traumata due to parental inadequacies postulated in dynamic etiological theories of drug abuse, also appear in theories regarding alcoholism.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Miller 1973 observed three etiological reasons for drug abuse, which are not necessarily indicative of any severe personal pathology or based on early traumata, deprivation, or distorted parenting.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

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