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Discover LudwigThe phrase "psychic scar" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe the psychological or emotional impact of a traumatic or difficult experience, for example: "The abuse she suffered left her with a deep psychic scar."
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Jewishness was one cause, he suggests; another may have been the psychic scar tissue he grew after a severe childhood leg infection.
This may be especially true for cancer, which leaves a psychic scar that, inscrutable to the uninitiated, lingers years past the diagnosis and treatment.
Yet it continues to haunt the blighted country – as a constant excuse for dysfunction, as a bitter memory, a psychic scar and a malaise.
I was trying to expose a regime of impunity on behalf of a community of survivors, while Anwar was trying to run away from his pain, to build up a cinematic psychic scar tissue around his trauma.
The Australian historian Michelle Arrow, who has co-edited a book about the case, believes it was such an engrossing spectacle that we still bear a "psychic scar" from it.
But as the deadline passed, anxiety over the message seemed to subside, leaving in its wake another psychic scar on people whose fear of persecution is deeply engrained, and prompting a debate over how the community and its leaders handled the issue.
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Each victim reacts differently, but they all suffer psychic scars.
The psychic scars of centuries are not removed as a result of one person being elected.
Dutilleux still bears the psychic scars of his clashes with Boulez.
William Bolcom went through this experience too, though with fewer psychic scars, from what he has said.
In long-term studies, the younger group suffered the bigger psychic scars.
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