An Autobiographical Book Review of Robert D. Stolorow's Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Psychology Today | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Research by my colleague Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that one of the best therapies for this kind of psychological trauma is also one...
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Much of the right-wing rhetoric about health care reform -- focusing on such non-issues as socialism, government control, and higher taxes -- has been obscuring what health care reform is really about: our mortality!
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
Remember Jim Carrey's character in Eternal Sunshine? He wanted the memory of Clementine extracted, traces of her wiped clean. Surely this was a film fantasy and impossible in real life. Or is it?
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
Imagine Jaycee's personality as a car that was happily going about her life 18 years ago, before she was abducted by the Garridos and taken to the compound that we are now seeing pictures of.
Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
I've done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I've also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, "There is always trauma in the room."
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Right-wing extremists and corporate propagandists are once again trying to incite the dread of collective retraumatization in their attempt to obstruct President Obama's plan for health-care reform.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York
The film is set in New York City in the 1990s. Yakin, a native New Yorker, shot the film in 25 days and financed it himself.
Lisa Guest | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.
Catholic Relief Services | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
For thousands of Iraqis, kidnapping is a nightmare they cannot wake up from. Between 2004 and 2007, hundreds of children and adults were abducted, tortured and often killed.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment
To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
In a series of earlier articles, I have discussed the concepts of "collective trauma"--the shattering of our shared illusions of grandiose invincibili...
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
Obama can no more miraculously save us from the cumulative consequences of many years of economic foolishness than Bush's holy war against the "forces of evil" could resurrect our lost illusions of grandiose invincibility.
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
How can it be that emotional trauma is so profoundly context-dependent and, at the same time, is built into our existence itself?
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The current economic crisis is reanimating once again the feelings of terror, vulnerability, and powerlessness spawned by the attack of 9/11.
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
In this radio interview I discuss my ideas about emotional trauma and extend them to the state of the American psyche in what I consider to be an Age of Trauma.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
Once we make our emotions conscious through thinking about them, we can begin to understand our feelings about them so that they can be brought into insight and balance.
Diane Perlman | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
President Obama, please lead us in healing wounds, compensating losses, and using principles of restorative justice rather than punitive approaches. Time doesn't heal wounds, people do.
Helen Benedict | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business
Traumas introduce you to an extreme vulnerability that on bad days you can barely live with. The world may think you got over those traumas, but the secret you keep inside is that you never did.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
Israelis and Palestinians have been trying to prove to each other that they can survive never ending violence, an eternal occupation, and a perpetual cycle of denial that the two cannot exist together.
Colleen Perry | Posted 01.07.2009 | Living
I can tell you from personal experience that the symptoms of PTSD affect not only the soldier, but their their family and friends. After his return from Panama, my brother was never the same.
Mark Silver | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business
It was a fantasy-land wish to see the election victory Obama and a more progressive agenda fill the global economy with enough confidence to stop the ...
Helen Davey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books