Trauma and the Mind's Narrative
This cognitive framework, which trauma narratives are filtered through, helps people make sense of their experiences.
This disorder is characterized as chronic and highly heterogeneous, developing in certain individuals after trauma.
PTSD
Freud believed trauma did this to the psyche, breaking it into compartments.
This psychological approach states that humans naturally create stories to understand time, process, and change.
Studies on this type of sibling pair are especially important in examining the heritability of PTSD thresholds.
Twin Studies
Freud insisted there is no direct connection between a traumatic event and this cognitive function.
Memory
Cognitive therapy for trauma often focuses on reconstructing this kind of narrative to reshape one’s perspective.
Positive Narrative
Dr. Rachel Yehuda studied the intergenerational effects of trauma by examining the offspring of these survivors.
Holocaust Survivors
In "Studies on Hysteria," Freud and Breuer famously wrote that hysterics suffer mainly from these.
Reminiscences
According to Rivka Tuval-Maschiach, trauma disrupts narratives on both a specific event level and this broader level.
The Whole Life Story
According to Dr. Carolyn Sartor’s study, this percentage of variance in PTSD can be attributed to heritable influences.
46%
According to Freud, trauma is compulsively repeated without this form of communication.
Verbal Expression
Wigren (1994) suggests that trauma disrupts this cognitive process, which helps individuals form coherent life stories.
Narrative Processing
This term refers to the level of stress at which PTSD develops, which has been found to be at least partly inheritable.
Threshold of Trauma
Freud distinguished between anxiety, fear, and this term, which he associated with panic-inducing trauma.
Fright