Trauma Revisited / Eliza Man-yee Lau

The vision of a world in peace is not only possible, but that it begins here, begins now, with each one of us, looking deeply within, and honoring our limitless potential.

──Sogyal Rinpoche, the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

A wound can be either physical or psychological. And as far as healing is concerned, psychological wounds are far more complex and difficult to deal with. Medical science has enabled man to assess the extent of damage to the body and to prescribe appropriate measures of cure accurately and in sophisticated ways. However, with regard to psychological traumas, scientists and psychiatric practitioners are still struggling with how such traumas could be properly understood, let alone prescribing appropriate treatment measures or remedy. In the book Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Cathy Caruth wrote: