If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

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Whether framed as historical or liberatory, memory work is helping survivors of state-inflicted violence process and begin healing from their trauma. A few years later, the Escuela de Música ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

A panic attack is a trauma response that typically occur in response to a certain trigger, like the sight of a person or object that was present during a traumatic moment. Sometimes, though, there may ...

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Learn how PTSD and traumatic brain injury are linked, why they’re hard to prove in court, and what evidence strengthens your ...