The sense of time in traumatic experiences

Journal title INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAUMA STUDIES
Author/s Elena Acquarini
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 61-76 File size 212 KB
DOI 10.3280/IJM2016-001007
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A disease in timing perception reveals a structural or emotional distress which affects different areas of psychic functioning: disperception can be a sign of important events emotionally and physically not assimilated by the individual. In the case of traumatized identity, the experience of time reveals the emotional impairment, and the integration of this parameter in such complex picture left by a traumatic injury allows a better perspective of clinical understanding of trauma.

Keywords: Ttrauma, emotions, sense of time.

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Elena Acquarini, Temporalità vissuta nell’esperienza traumatica in "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAUMA STUDIES" 1/2016, pp 61-76, DOI: 10.3280/IJM2016-001007