PSYCHIC TRAUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychic trauma mean? 

• PSYCHIC TRAUMA (noun)
  The noun PSYCHIC TRAUMA has 1 sense:

1. an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

  Familiarity information: PSYCHIC TRAUMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHIC TRAUMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

psychic trauma; trauma

Hypernyms ("psychic trauma" is a kind of...):

mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychic trauma"):

birth trauma (emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness)