An authoritative definition of "trauma"

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I LIKE it-- yet do think that pyschological trauma also fits the definition.

And, I have seen that mentation manifestation interfere with the healing of
the aforementioned physical trauma!

cmm

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Blueflightmedic
<trauma at emergencyunit.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:
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> 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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