An emotionally painful, shocking, stressful, and sometimes life-threatening experience. It can result from witnessing distressing events such as natural disasters, physical or sexual abuse, and terrorism or other acts of violence. (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/)
    

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Relationship struggles : a trauma-sensitive relationship diversity affirmative zine / by Meg-John Barker.

Social exclusion, compound trauma and recovery : applying psychology, psychotherapy and PIE to homelessness and complex needs / edited by Peter Cockersell.

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Traumatic pasts : history, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930 / edited by Mark S. Micale, Paul Lerner.

Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history / Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub.

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Relationship struggles : a trauma-sensitive relationship diversity affirmative zine / by Meg-John Barker.

Social exclusion, compound trauma and recovery : applying psychology, psychotherapy and PIE to homelessness and complex needs / edited by Peter Cockersell.

Boxes.

Traumatic pasts : history, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930 / edited by Mark S. Micale, Paul Lerner.

Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history / Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub.