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Literary notes about Trauma (AI summary)

In literature, the word trauma serves as a multifaceted term that captures both the physical impact of injury and the profound psychological wounds that alter one's inner life. It is frequently used in clinical or medical contexts to denote the immediate, often visible effects of physical damage—such as being rushed into a trauma room after a head injury or receiving urgent treatment following an accident ([1],[2],[3],[4])—and extending to detailed surgical or pathological interventions ([5],[6]). Simultaneously, trauma is employed to evoke internal, psychic disturbances, where the emotional aftermath of distressing events is likened to deep, soul-wounding experiences that may lead to lasting neuroses or altered self-perceptions ([7],[8],[9],[10]). This dual usage allows authors and clinicians alike to express the tangible effects of bodily injury while metaphorically addressing the invisible scars left by severe emotional or psychological stress ([11]).
  1. I saw the wound in his head as he was brought into the trauma room where he was treated.
    — from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
  2. Antitetanic serum was given 24 hours after the trauma.
    — from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric ProblemsPresented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard
  3. How long did it take you to go from where you were when the page came to get down to trauma room
    — from Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
  4. At four, sustained a trauma on the head (skull depression), dizziness, loss of consciousness.
    — from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric ProblemsPresented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard
  5. (2) Mr. Treves has suggested that the effect of the severe trauma on the muscular coat of the bowel is to cause a cessation of peristaltic movement.
    — from Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
  6. The localization of the hemorrhage in the gums is due largely to trauma, occasioned by the sharp contact of the jaws or of the nursing-bottle.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  7. "The doctors call it trauma and say that my memory may come back to me at any time, but I can't wait."
    — from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin
  8. Freud believed hysteria to be the result of a psychic trauma.
    — from Mental diseases: a public health problem by James Vance May
  9. She was not able to get over the unfeasibility of her marriage, and has not been able to extricate herself from this trauma.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  10. This psychic trauma is translated into fear again.
    — from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey
  11. The Jews have been subjected to the kind of trauma and abuse I mentioned earlier on an unprecedented and never repeated scale.
    — from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

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