Trauma
- Psychological or emotional injury caused by a deeply disturbing experience.
Whether or not engaging professional help or not (always the preferred course), trauma is much like grief in that coping strategies vary widely. Following are excellent illustrations of people facing traumatic events with the emotional resources they have at hand.
Examples of Trauma in Film
- A Map of the World
- A Single Man
- A Time to Kill
- Alien
- Amazing Grace
- Another Earth
- Batman Begins
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bound
- Braveheart
- Brothers (2005)
- Buried
- Casualties of War
- Cliffhanger
- Corrina, Corrina
- Death and the Maiden
- Deliverance
- Dolores Claiborne
- Dolphin Tale
- Doubt
- Everything is Illuminated
- Extremeties
- Flawless (1999)
- Four Days in September
- Gran Torino
- Harold and Maude
- Hope Floats
- House of Sand and Fog
- Monster’s Ball
- Normal
- Ordinary People
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Places in the Heart
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Rabbit Hole
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Rocky III
- Sarah’s Key
- Signs
- Sophie’s Choice
- Star Trek (2009)
- Super 8
- The Accused
- The Color Purple
- The Deer Hunter
- The Descendants
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- The Door in the Floor
- The Fisher King
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- The Life of David Gale
- The Matrix
- The Queen
- The Road
- The Shipping News
- We Are Marshall
- X-Men: First Class
“trauma.” The Free Dictionary by Farlex. 18 Dec. 2011. <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trauma>.
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