traumata

• Consistent with previous research, the data here suggest abortion can increase stress and decrease coping abilities, particularly for those women who have a history of adverse childhood events and prior traumata. —  Planet Atheism
• Workplace stress, alienation from coworkers and customers, exploitation by management and capital; the pressure to compete as worker and consumer; the nearly universal demand for presenting a facade of relentless optimism, as k-punk cogently observes; the expectation that you can buy your way into happiness; isolation from others in the community and even from one's most intimate friends - aren't these ongoing external sources of unhappiness at least as likely to cause symptoms as are traumata experienced long ago in infancy? —  k-punk
• Its cathartic or purgative function regulates irritability, which may otherwise be drained or vented in wrong directions, exactly as Breuer [24] shows psychic traumata may, if overtense, result in "hysterical convulsions." —  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
• 1990, "but not the traumata that the political division of Europe has wrought upon the continent: a complex network, with its differences and tensions, was cut to pieces; intellectual circulation between western and eastern Europe was interrupted. —  Eurozine articles

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