Trauma

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • R.A. Segal
  • K. von Stuckrad
Book title Vocabulary for the Study of Religion
ISBN
  • 9789004290433
Volume | Issue number 3
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM)
Abstract This article describes the development of the meaning of the word “trauma” and the way the term is now used in a much wider way by public speech. Originally, trauma was only used in a psychiatric sense, but the idea of trauma is now more widespread. The article follows this development and discusses the term’s reception in popular discourse.
Document type Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Language English
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