Trauma

A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children: “When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day after tomorrow?”

The author discusses “Bruises,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Judith Herman’s seminal book “Trauma and Recovery” created a template for her field. Three decades later, she’s published a follow-up to explain how survivors’ needs are still misunderstood.

“Of course, Arlette understood, this was not a tragedy. Tragedy would be a broken neck or spine. Paralysis for life. A coma.”

In a new book, translated by Molly Ringwald, Maria’s cousin recalls the fame and turbulence that followed the release of Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial film.

Ukrainians have responded with remarkable dignity and courage, but there is little to romanticize one year into the Russian invasion.

The film’s nostalgia is incongruous with the contemporary social ills that it diagnoses.

A fellow former hostage visits Cambodia to talk about the struggle to recover from a harrowing shared experience.

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

New psychological research suggests that trigger warnings do not reduce negative reactions to disturbing material—and may even increase them.

The two tragedies make for easy inferences about the importance of commemoration. But this is not how trauma works.

A psychologist considers the possible effects of a global experience of long-term stress.

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

The author discusses “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.

The author discusses “Medusa,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.

In the mass-shooting era, civilians must help one another in a crisis—and keep victims from bleeding to death.