This collection includes articles analyzing trauma not only as a one-time event that dramatically changed a person's life, but also as a process that continues to influence people's attitudes towards their past, present and future. According to the authors of the collection, the injury cannot be reduced only to an act of violation - or even complete destruction - of the usual lifestyle and established models of self-perception. The futility of trying to formulate acceptable reasons for this unexpected rupture of the fabric of social life turns out to be traumatic. In different contexts and through different approaches, the authors of the collection demonstrate the ways in which people learn to live with trauma - not suppressing or displacing its negative impact, but finding a place for it in their fate and in the history of their lives.