Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury - Paperbackby Margaret Crastnopol (Author) Micro trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury explores the "micro traumatic" or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person's sense of self worth, skewing his or her character and compromising his or her relatedness to others. These injuries amount to what has been previously called "cumulative" or "relational trauma." Until now, psychoanalysis has explained such negative