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Psychological Trauma

Psychological trauma is the lasting emotional and psychological response to an event that a person experiences as deeply distressing, frightening, or overwhelming, such as violence, abuse, accidents, disaster, war, or the sudden loss of a loved one. Unlike ordinary stress, trauma can exceed a person's ability to cop…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 35× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2766-6204 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Psychological trauma is the lasting emotional and psychological response to an event that a person experiences as deeply distressing, frightening, or overwhelming, such as violence, abuse, accidents, disaster, war, or the sudden loss of a loved one. Unlike ordinary stress, trauma can exceed a person's ability to cope, leaving enduring effects on thoughts, feelings, behavior, and the body. Reactions may include intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, emotional numbing, anxiety, and avoidance, and in some cases these develop into post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or other mental health conditions. Trauma can also affect physical health and is increasingly understood to have roots in how the brain and nervous system respond to threat. Its impact varies with the nature and duration of the event, individual vulnerability, and the availability of support, and effective treatments, including trauma-focused psychotherapies, can aid recovery. Medical and Psychological Trauma publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to the psychological consequences of adverse events, including studies of maxillofacial trauma and psychological stress, cognitive-analytic therapy in women with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative amnesia, mental stress among adolescents seeking asylum, and the experiences of survivors of sexual violence. This page gathers open-access research relevant to psychological trauma and its assessment and treatment.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Maxillofacial Trauma and Psychological Stress

Young CeciliaCorresponding author
Independent Researcher, 105A, 1/F Liberte Place, 833 Lai Chi Kok Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Medical and Psychological Trauma doi:10.14302/issn.2766-6204.jmpt-18-2079
2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Exact topic International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246
2020

Mental Health in The Context of The COVID 19 Pandemic

Yadav RavinderCorresponding author
Medical Social Welfare Officer Department of Medical Record Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3367

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 35 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Psychological Trauma, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Medical and Psychological Trauma (ISSN 2766-6204).

Journal editorial board
Cecilia Young · Hong Kong Andrea Biscardi · Italy Cristian Vasile · Romania

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.