Healing from trauma is often depicted in popular culture as a heroic battle with painful memories. Often, we see a solitary individual confronting their darkest moments and emerging changed. Yet, real ...

Boo Trundle’s novel The Daughter Ship offers a psychologically rigorous portrayal of trauma that aligns closely with contemporary clinical understandings of dissociation, memory fragmentation, and ...

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 ...

Trauma theory shift: A new model suggests trauma is a disorder of brain threat prediction, not stored in body tissues, with flow states offering potential recovery benefits. Paper boosts recall: ...

An analysis of brain activity in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder has found that the brain processes traumatic memories associated with PTSD differently than regular memories -- a finding ...

Traumatic memories had their own neural mechanism, brain scans showed, which may help explain their vivid and intrusive nature. By Ellen Barry At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you’ve been to a therapist’s office in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of eye movement desensitization and ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

A new study shows that when individuals with PTSD recall traumatic events, each person displays different brain activity, which is markedly different from when they recall a sad or neutral memory.