Author page: Sônia Gomes

Trauma is an experience of extreme stress or shock that is/or was, at some point, part of life. It is an experience that threatens body/mind’s entire organism by causing a rupture in its capacity to assimilate and accommodate into inner regulatory, taking it to functioning in a new level of organization. The organism is forced beyond its physiological adaptation’s capacity,…

The trauma is an interrupted process, which is frozen in time and space, which has a natural inclination to be completed whenever this is possible According to Levine (1999), trauma lies upon the instinctive physiology. Levine does not see the event as a determining factor, therefore trauma is not perceived as deriving from the nature of the event itself, but…