IJSP Number 1, 2019

43 TRAUMA GENERATING SUFFERING AND THE PROCESS OF BECOMING MATURE PARASCHIV Elisaveta 1 1 The Association of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy (AIRCP), Romania Email: elisa.paraschiv@gmail.com Abstract When a certain situation overwhelms us so much as we can’t face it then we’ll have stored inside a trauma. Trauma received many descriptions in time, being a serious issue to be taken into consideration by psychologists worldwide. Suffering is a universal experience which affects everyone, and traumas are the constitutive part of a becoming mature process of the human being. Thus, the need to identify traumatic processes is crucial for the healing process, and a proper knowledge in this matter is also underlined. Key-words : trauma, research, innovation, psychotherapy, supervision 1. INTRODUCTION Even no one wants to suffer, most of the people do. Suffering is a universal experience which affects everyone, and traumas are the constitutive part of a becoming mature process of the human being. Not any suffering can be a trauma, even it is the foundation of any trauma. In the psychology dictionary and in the psychiatry one trauma is defined by the connotation synonym of trauma; as being a violent impulse capable of starting some somatisation or psychic disorders. Freud calls „trauma” any event which disturbs the emotional balance of a person and it causes the start of his/her defence mechanisms. Trying to stop the invading of the psychic device with huge amounts of excitations, the organism protects itself by closing in front of any supplementary stimulus, by swoon, pseudo characteristic, pseudo-deafness, etc. It will also force itself to keep them, and then to get their progressive discharging, by especially using of the repetition automatisms [1]. Thus one can say that when a certain situation overwhelms us so much as we can’t face it then we’ll have stored inside a trauma . There are two fundamental types of trauma: brutal and subtle ones.