Trauma was just becoming a burgeoning field in psychotherapy when we began to practice in the 1970s. One thing that came more into focus is the kind of traumas we talk about in our reports. These we might call childhood traumas of everyday life; and for the most part they were essentially invisible; at least few people saw them for what they are. There has been a great deal of childhood experience that has been “invisible,” various forms of violations of sexuality, and numerous ways of undermining a child’s developing self. In our case, we came to understand our own childhood and adolescent experience in the light of trauma only well after the time we became a couple.
A Note on Trauma
