Motherless Sons: The Impact of Loss
How early mother loss shapes a boy’s identity, grief, and emotional connections
Why Trauma Affects Some People Differently Than Others
An interview with neuroscientist Daniela Schiller about the mechanisms underlying trauma and how trauma experiences can differ.
Memory and Trauma: We Are More than What We Remember
An interview with neuroscientist Daniela Schiller about how current neuroscience research relates to psychotherapy and the close connection between memory and narrative.
How the Brain Stores Traumatic Memories
An interview with neuroscientist Daniela Schiller, co-author of a recent study offering evidence that the brain encodes traumatic memories differently from other memories.
Seven Principles for Recovering from Trauma
The third conversation with Jungian therapist and rabbi Tirzah Firestone.
Diagnosing and Treating PTSD and Complex PTSD: Changing the Ways We Adapt
In Part Two of his interview trauma therapist Brad Kammer explains the importance of agency and adaptive styles in how the NeuroAffective Relational Model treats trauma
Diagnosing and Treating PTSD and Complex PTSD: It's Not About “What’s Wrong With You?”
Trauma therapist Brad Kammer explains how the NeuroAffective Relational Model diagnoses and treats PTSD and Complex PTSD.
Recovering from Trauma: Finding the Words That Heal
What therapists and writers have to say on the power of listening and writing to help us heal from trauma. “All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.”—Isak Dinesen
Trauma: Who is Telling Your Story?
Do you have an unreliable narrator inside you? Brain research indicates that trauma can affect how you interpret day-to-day experiences.
Trauma’s Lingering Effects and the Creative Self
Today we understand that trauma can be “inherited,” passed down through the generations. Speaking what's unspoken can move us out of victimhood.