This paper analyzes both the psychoanalytic and theological roots of the stigmata phenomenon using a specific case study of an early twentieth-century stigmatic, Thérèse Neumann (1898-1962). Using recent research on trauma, the stigmata will be analzyed psychologically as posttraumatic stress symptoms expressed in unconscious self-mutilation through abnormal autosuggestibility. Using historical Christian theology, as well as Neumann's words and ideas that influenced her, this paper illustrates how the stigmatic herself understood her suffering. Comments on gender, power, and ethics will be made regarding both the psychoanalytic and the religious view. These two views will then be brought to bear on an understanding of posttraumatic stress symptoms in which suffering may have moral and therapeutic value.