Questions tagged [trauma]
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Paper on PTSD and trauma
I'm looking for a paper on PTSD research.
Last year, 2023, I found this paper I'm having trouble finding today. I believe the main author had a masculine name. The paper was a survey of various ...
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How are IQ test scores affected by psychological stress or trauma?
Does mental stress or trauma have a significant impact on IQ test performance relative to baseline, and if so, how much?
For example, if a person is affected by abuse, bullying, neglect, or some other ...
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Winnicott and Ogden : Fear of breakdown and 'reliving'
I've been reading some text from Winnicott and Ogden about "The Fear of Breakdown" and the unlived life.
Ogden, T. H. (2016) wrote this about Winnicott's previous work in Reclaiming unlived ...
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Which sub-field of psychology is the best for a research focus on complex trauma?
Which sub-field of psychology is the best option for a research focus on complex trauma (CPTSD)? I want to apply for a PhD in psychology. I like research, but like clinical works too. However, my main ...
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Is there any research on "victim mentality" or is this a made-up expression with no scientific equivalent?
I am interested in learning more about what it means to be a victim vs. what it means to have a "victim mentality." My understanding is that not all people who are traumatized think of ...
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What are the effects of an overexposure to solitary confinement?
Solitary confinement has been shown to be bad for mental health.
I was wondering if really long solitary confinement, like this one are different to normal solitary confinement. In terms of effects ...
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Can a person have a imaginary friend as some kind of hallucination or pychosis?
If a person were to experience some kind of mental trauma, could their brain unconsciously create a friend that only they could hear, see and physically feel, to help them cope?
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What is dissociation?
When searching the internet for a definitive description of what dissociation is, I get a mixture of results which confuses.
Wikipedia states:
Dissociation, as a concept that has been developed over ...
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In the face of sexual trauma, do sufferers tend to avoid relationships with the other sex?
People who suffer trauma tend to avoid talking about their traumatic events: I am wondering if this happens in sexual trauma.
My concern is that the brain should not evolve features leading to the ...
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New methods of treatment of psychological trauma?
Classical methods of psychological treatment of trauma help many people, but there is always a percentage of the patients those are can’t be healed with classical methods like Drug interventions, ...
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Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable?
Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable, instead of being more resilient and treating trauma in a detached manner? Don't symptoms of trauma reduce a person's biological fitness? Is PTSD an ...
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Is there a concept explaining internalizing others' trauma?
I have interrelated questions about trauma and personality factors, and how the latter can possibly contribute to the former.
Second Hand Trauma?
Is there any concept in publications that I can ...
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Precisely, what does it mean for a person to overcome psychological trauma?
It is often said that therapy or meeting a psychologist allows one to overcome trauma and let go of hidden pains. It is not clear to me exactly what the process of therapy entails—how would one know ...
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What is meant by "adaptive emotions" in this explanation of the TARGET model?
I was reading an article about TARGET, an approach to grounding emotional disregulation (e.g. from trauma). It introduces a mnemonic, FREEDOM, as follows:
Focusing: Concentrating on a single idea ...
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Psychological effects of statutory rape - differences by gender?
Occasionally, criminal cases where female teachers have sex with male students make the news. I have the impression that many people are much less critical of that than when the victim is female, and ...
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