ABSTRACT
The wholist perspective is applied to explain the great variety of often contradictory traumatic stress phenomena, followed by orientation and diagnosis of traumatic stress and fulfillment responses. In addition to subsuming point and linear concepts, the wholist perspective gives trauma and fulfillment responses much increased conceptual scope. Language of traumatic stress and language in general may have a deep evolutionary connection. Defensive gaps in awareness are associated with much of the symptomatology in traumatology. Defensive survival strategy substitutions include substitution of adaptive fantasies for maladaptive and traumatic realities and substitutions of one survival strategy for another. Specific traumatic content of the past can be contrasted with specific adaptive triaxial survival strategy hopes and fulfillment prospects in the present. Victims’ aggressiveness and fears are also treated with respect, recognizing their validity in the present or as belonging to particular trauma contexts.
