ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the magnitude and complexity of the field of traumatology. Traumatology sees trauma as panic everything, the worm at the core of human happiness. Traumatology as a science involves the study of responses to threats of physical and existential survival, the context and process in which stress and trauma occur, and the complex aftermath of the trauma process. The complexity of the cases may be multiplied when considering early and multiple traumas. The reconnection with earlier, often hidden traumas may be long and arduous as each antecedent is clarified and integrated into a more hopeful current view. A hypothetical case of fulfillment contrasted with three cases that illustrated the range and complexity of the effects of trauma. They included a great variety of adaptive and maladaptive biological, psychological, and social responses in various settings involving varying spiritual depths of human existence.
