Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co., 369 NYS2d 637 (1975) holding that psychological or nervous injury precipitated by
psychic trauma is compensable to the same extent as physical injury.
Pickering-Iazzi argues that Rita Atria's diary marks the site of
psychic trauma, acting as her own personal witness, and also a crucial document in her (re)formation of identity.
Drawing on the psychoanalytic perspective of Jacques Lacan, the author shows how slavery is a
psychic trauma repeated through racism and inscribed on the racial identity of African Americans through signifiers of otherness.
(1) A brief analysis of the type of novels that literary critics have studied in the numerous essays, chapters and complete books that have been written on 9/11 fiction shows that the most popular novels among academics deal with domestic,
psychic trauma, and are mostly unconcerned with the broader global context and the political consequences of the events.
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psychic trauma, though, was paralyzing, and Shelby said a key factor in his recovery from PTSD--as odd as it sounds --was starting to drive for Uber
After being severely injured by a piece of falling debris, the protagonist finds his physical debilitation matched by the
psychic trauma of living without memory, with every action feeling labored and artificial.
He ate only to quell his gut, / but the emptiness never left him." Bernard contrasts terrifying depictions of Esther's physical and
psychic trauma with images of the child discovering and reading the encyclopedia her mother hides in the parlor:
Fundamentally, the paper proposes that the symptom complex anorexia is an intricate, multifaceted defensive response to overwhelming
psychic trauma, past or present.
By the time we arrive at the memoir's most deeply honest and troubling passages, where suicide becomes a preoccupation of the author's early adulthood and an alarming fixture of the community she has been tracking, we have also come to understand how so much
psychic trauma can run through a life where so little seems to be out of place.
Unlike the Surrealists freely attempting to access the depths of their dreams and sound the bottom of those tenebrous waters, war-veteran artists working in a "surrealist" mode are compelled by
psychic trauma to produce objects that materialize the event of the trauma itself; even when successfully sublimating the trauma through artistic creation, these art objects can never completely erase the inciting incident.
psychic trauma - an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects