Sigmund Freud’s intra-psychic theory on trauma was developed, from inspiration on his clinical case studies in the late nineteenth century. Freud took on the direction that the repression process is a defence against emotional trauma. The term repression was used to describe painful and emotional events, that are able to be blocked out from an individual’s conscious awareness. This is so that the painful effects of the event would not be experienced and intentionally forgotten (Cohen, 1985). The repression process is an automatic psychological defence. Freud stated that the opposite of repression is suppression, where an individual intentionally blocks out an emotion or thought from their consciousness to avoid any accountability because of
