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- noun The infliction of
trauma ; the act or process oftraumatizing .
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Examples
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May you have your sweet, trusting puppy back very soon ... and may poor Braise be totally recuperated from her traumatization, as well!
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Portkeys to trauma return us again and again to an experience of traumatization.
Robert D. Stolorow: Trauma And The Hourglass Of Time Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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As if this sense of estrangement and isolation were not enough to bear, another aspect of traumatization makes a difficult situation even more painful: it isn't just the shattering of illusions, or the loss, or the injury, but also the intense shame and self-loathing because of one's reaction to that trauma.
Helen Davey: September 11 and the Effects of Trauma Helen Davey 2010
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As if this sense of estrangement and isolation were not enough to bear, another aspect of traumatization makes a difficult situation even more painful: it isn't just the shattering of illusions, or the loss, or the injury, but also the intense shame and self-loathing because of one's reaction to that trauma.
Helen Davey: September 11 and the Effects of Trauma Helen Davey 2010
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As if this sense of estrangement and isolation were not enough to bear, another aspect of traumatization makes a difficult situation even more painful: it isn't just the shattering of illusions, or the loss, or the injury, but also the intense shame and self-loathing because of one's reaction to that trauma.
Helen Davey: September 11 and the Effects of Trauma Helen Davey 2010
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As if this sense of estrangement and isolation were not enough to bear, another aspect of traumatization makes a difficult situation even more painful: it isn't just the shattering of illusions, or the loss, or the injury, but also the intense shame and self-loathing because of one's reaction to that trauma.
Helen Davey: September 11 and the Effects of Trauma Helen Davey 2010
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Secondly, in therapy a whistleblower may be compelled to relive the trauma which can lead to a secondary re-traumatization.
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May you have your sweet, trusting puppy back very soon... and may poor Braise be totally recuperated from her traumatization, as well!
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Exposure therapy would just be re traumatization in my view, and "toughing it out" is not a reliable strategy.
I have a problem. Angry Professor 2009
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One form such reactive ideology may take is the attribution of messianic powers to an admired leader, an attribution that, when it is disappointed as it inevitably must be, brings further traumatization.
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