Citation

Fischer L, Holderbach S, Ouro-Gnao I, Atz JY, Edmonds G, Triandafyllou J. Lancet Psychiatry 2024; 11(1): e15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2024, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00391-7

PMID

38101870

Abstract

Trauma is the embodiment of an experience that violated our being, the internalisation of a horror that was once external and that haunts us through both absence and presence. Trauma can be utter silence, the void left behind, a lingering ghost, or the elephant in the room we cannot always acknowledge but that keeps squeezing us into the corner. There is an inexpressible aspect to trauma: the haunting cannot rightly be conveyed through words.

Language: en