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psychic trauma

DEFINITIONS OF: psychic trauma

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n an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

Synonyms:
trauma
Types:
birth trauma
emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness
Type of:
mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
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