Trauma…an emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person…an event or situation that causes great distress and disruption (from the Greek for wound). (American Heritage Dictionary)

Narrative…story that is created in a constructive format (written, spoken, poetry, prose, images, song, theater, or dance) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events…from the Latin verb narrare, to recount…related to the adjective gnarus…knowing or skilled. (Wikipedia)

Neuroscience…scientific study of the nervous system…such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience, and pathology of the nervous system. (Wikipedia)

Psychoanalysis…a body of ideas developed by Sigmund Freud and his followers, which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior… [consists of] A method of investigation of the mind…a systematized set of theories about human behavior…a method of treatment of psychological illness. (Wikipedia)