However, it has all the qualities of a buzzword.

There is a popular understanding and relationship with trauma.

There are varying definitions describing what trauma is.

While the different concepts of trauma will share a core, many of the definitions link with quite diverse concepts. Sometimes it is as if they would replace another existing concept, sometimes they shed a slightly different light on it.

I can’t say whether these definitions emerge as the subject is en vogue, if they are established to connect a different subject with trauma to make it more interesting, or if it took them years to become visible. It’s probably all of it.

As a result, understanding the topic requires one to know what the topic is that one is interested in. It’ll help to discard the literature that is not relevant. Developing that ability first requires you to be curious about what the word trauma refers to whenever it appears.