Why Trauma Is Not What Most of Us Think It Is

Psychology Today | 21.12.2025 02:20
“Trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated, and curated by the individual,” writes Katherine Rowland in The Guardian, in an article aptly titled They’re selling everything as trauma.” With striking clarity, she describes how trauma has been commodified—packaged, marketed, and circulated—often with little effort to explain what trauma actually is.