1885: Hugo Ziemssen, Handbook of diseases of the skin, p629But the traumata merely act then as exciting causes.
1921: Robert Bing & Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures, p84As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.
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?
2004: Steven Connor, The Book of Skin, p123Like the words ‘trauma’ and ‘traumata’, the word ‘stigmata’ seems to exercise its functions unacknowledged in writings about hysteria and allied conditions…
