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Tue Mar 31 13:27:52 BST 2009

Easy; you are being too inclusive. Trauma is injury sustained from the
application of force to tissue excess to the tissue's ability to handle it.

Calling psychological upset 'trauma' has confused separate entities for too
long. 

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org]
On Behalf Of Howard Berkowitz
Sent: 27 March 2009 13:51
To: Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list
Subject: An authoritative definition of "trauma"

Rather to my surprise, there is no pure definition of "trauma" at
Trauma.org. Here's my challenge: I'm dealing with a wiki article where some
advocates want to focus on stress disorders (to say nothing of recovered
memory therapies) that are secondary only to psychogenic events, and mostly
child abuse (and, in this case, ritual abuse conspircies).  They are
preempting the word "trauma" as a synonym for child abuse; they are ignoring
even combat stress.

I want to start a core article on trauma that then can branch into the sort
of multisystem trauma that is of chief interest here, but also include
psychogenic traumas. Once that structure exists, I'd like to invite
participation, but I need to solve the immediate hijacking of the concept.

If there really is no good formal source that can be used, can a consensus
definition be created here?

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