Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun psychic_trauma

1 sense of psychic trauma

Sense 1
trauma, psychic trauma -- (an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects)
       => psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition -- ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state")