Trauma and Shafak's 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World

The analysis of Elif Shafak's Turkish psychological fiction in English, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Shafak, 2019), precedes a discussion and summary of trauma theory, which is primarily used in this study. On trauma, most of the work generated in 1990s. Many theories and testing and diagnosing processes were developed to study victims and survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. However, these works are also useful when looking into other traumatic events like forced prostitution, forced marriage, and gender inequality in Turkey. This is the fictional representation of traumatic childhood, sexual abuse, death trauma, forced marriages and forced prostitution and impacts of traumatic incidents on victim's mind. The exposition of coping mechanisms and recovery processes of survivors to deal with mental illness. According to Herman, the first ever examination of trauma started with the investigation into the concept of hysteria at the Paris hospital La Salp皻ri鋨e with French neurologist Jean - Martin Charcot, with whom Sigmund Freud and Pierre Janet Studied in 1880s. (Herman, 1992).