ABSTRACT
Many members of pregnancy-loss support groups experience their loss as traumatic. Brison (1997) begins her piece “Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity,”from which I adapt my subtitle, with the observation that “survivors of trauma frequently remark that they are not the same people they were before being traumatized.”Though originally used to refer to “a physical wound (a …break in the body produced by an outside force or agent),”trauma has come to be used to describe “invisible injuries inflicted on the mind, self, or soul”(Young 1996:89). Along the same lines, Hacking describes trauma as “painful experiences that corrupt …one…s sense of oneself”(Hacking 1996:75).
