In the mental health field, children who have been traumatized are encouraged as part of their therapy to “tell their story” of their abuse. The written or spoken statement of what happened to them ...

If you’ve experienced severe trauma in the past, you may be searching for ways to understand your emotions. Trauma has a way of taking over your life, even years later. Learn how narrative therapy may ...

A new study by psychologists at UB and the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering has found that in the aftermath of national trauma, the ability to make sense out of what happened has implications ...

The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society. On the final lap of his book tour last March, Prince Harry sat in a comfy armchair on a living ...

Any casual scrolling online will offer up a kaleidoscope of trauma narratives complete with selfies, traumatic stories used to sell me everything from self-care e-courses to commitment to the cause, ...

Generational trauma — the psychological and physiological effects experienced by subsequent generations of those who first experienced trauma — has become one of the most resonant buzzwords of our ...

This essay applies trauma theory and relational psychoanalysis to a close reading of Mary Gaitskill's short story "The Dentist." It argues that the sadomasochistic relationship central to this story, ...

“What does not kill me, makes me stronger,” 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote. Variations of that aphorism abound in literary, spiritual and, more recently, ...

Mike Flanagan understands trauma better than perhaps any filmmaker working in the horror genre today. His entire filmography, from Absentia (2011) to Doctor Sleep (2019), is replete with the nuances ...

When I think about what is discussed when talking about Indigenous literature, I often think about what isn’t out there yet or what there isn’t enough of. What do we need more of? What type of stories ...

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