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 ...

When an individual is assaulted and harmed by a stranger, it does not cause what's known as betrayal trauma. There is no need to turn a blind eye to the harm done. The victim does not feel pulled in ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

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 ...

Maria, my patient, is neatly dressed in a skirt and blouse. Her bright coral nail polish, designer handbag and artful mascara and eyeliner look perfect. Her face, by contrast, is tight and almost ...

Starting with two pioneering studies in the 1990s – Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma – Trauma Studies ...