traumata

Noun

 * 1) * 1985: Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts), Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, p158 & p182
 * …analysts often seek magically to explain his specific acts by tracing them to particular infantile traumata. Rather than trying to understand the patient as a whole, they concentrate on why he made a specific slip of the tongue or dreamed an individual dream.
 * In the first place, no one denies that infantile traumata and fixations may sometimes be at the root of adult neuroses; the question is: Is this always so?
 * 1) * 1985: Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts), Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, p158 & p182
 * …analysts often seek magically to explain his specific acts by tracing them to particular infantile traumata. Rather than trying to understand the patient as a whole, they concentrate on why he made a specific slip of the tongue or dreamed an individual dream.
 * In the first place, no one denies that infantile traumata and fixations may sometimes be at the root of adult neuroses; the question is: Is this always so?