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PSYCHIC TRAUMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
Synonyms:
psychic trauma; trauma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("psychic trauma" is a kind of...):
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychic trauma"):
birth trauma (emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness)
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