This study aims to explore how traumatic experiences influence behaviour in a reactive manner. Is it possible that trauma of significant intensity and duration can “revive,” that is, generate a “traumatic algorithm” which, through replication, becomes optimized within a person’s emotional–motivational, social, moral, and conative traits and capacities-ultimately reprogramming their character, behaviour, thought processes, and emotional regulation, beyond their conscious will? This observational and quantitative research began several decades ago, initially based on personal and familial experiences, and later expanded to include the experiences of others (through conversations, interviews, and surveys), starting in 2005 in the Republic of Serbia. A total of 61 individual cases were recorded (female/male: 41/20; average age: 52 years). Our long-term research and observations indicate that trauma-understood as the psychological adaptation to the effects of one or more intense stress-inducing events arising from social interactions-develops, transforms, and adapts over time, much like the human being. If the frequency and intensity of trauma are not reduced (similar to the way software programs are optimized through information processing), the traumatic algorithm may, over time, become optimized and assume control over the individual. Even if the person reacts consciously, they may become, in a certain sense, psychologically compromised-unable to comprehend or regulate their own behaviour by an act of will, learning only retroactively through the consequences of their actions what they have done.
Keywords: Stress, Trauma, Algorithm, Optimization, Character Replication, Consciousness, Insanity, Trauma Revival.
Citation: Kuka, M. (2025). Causal Relationship Between Experienced Trauma and the Optimized Algorithm of Traumatic Reactions – Can a Revived Trauma Govern a Person?. J Psychol Neurosci; 7(3):1-8. DOI : https://doi.org/10.47485/2693-2490.1127