Trauma & Acute Care

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A daily complaint often covers untreated old traumas, pains of the past that have not been heard, sadnesses that have not yet been comforted, inj ustices not yet enough heard .

Now, hypersensitivity exists as a social movement, with its forums, its groups, its communities. It is the social valve through which rejected or repressed emotions can be expressed. It allows legitimising the expression of feelings, as during the baroque period, Romanticism and May 68... Ultra-sensitivity is a natural and spontaneous remedy against crisis and its effects of censorship.

Hello, my name is Saverio Tomasella. I am a Psychoanalyst from France. As an Editor of Trauma and Acute Care, I would like to share some milestones about Trauma and Psychological Traumatism. It is important to distinguish these two words. Trauma is a Greek name which means injury. A traumatised person is wounded. Then, a psychological traumatism follows the shock. In fact, the trauma produces personal consequences, as deep anxiety, breakdown and repetitive nightmares. The persons are upset by the trauma. They must deal with the accident or the drama they lived, take it into account, understand it, overcome it, if possible, and live differently after it happened to them. So, a traumatism encompasses all these consequences and corresponds to a specific story one can, or could, tell about the drama. With the development of natural disasters as well as human disasters, we also need to differentiate a trauma from a catastrophe. A disaster leads to several traumas and grieves altogether