Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso

The concept of psychological trauma is polysemic and remains a subject of debate among academics and researchers. In this article, I argue that this view is inadequate as it fails to sufficiently explain significant trauma-related effects that present anomalies for the causal position. I defend two claims. First, in defining psychological trauma, we must move beyond the need for a strong causal relationship dependent on the traumatic event (TE) and shift towards a weak causal perspective. Second…