In our current clinical landscape, “trauma” has become a ubiquitous term—both in the scientific literature and in popular discourse. The word is invoked in diagnostic manuals, self-help books, and ...

Patients who survive traumatic incidents often enter the clinic with injuries that are technically healing, but with lives that are far from restored. A fractured zygoma may be fixed. A deep facial ...

The word trauma comes from the Latin word meaning "wound." In medicine, professionals use the word "trauma" to refer to physical damage to body parts. On the other hand, psychological trauma, loosely ...

In the 30-plus years since I started working as a psychiatrist, there’s been a huge surge in therapists focusing on trauma. For the most part, this is a good thing. We know that trauma, defined as an ...