Media Matters: Staying Informed While Staying Safe: A Major Challenge in a World at ‎War Described by the 24-Hour News Cycle – Josianne Lamothe, MSW, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | May 24, 2022 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

For the past few months, the world has watched in horror as the invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold. Every day, viewers tune in to listen to more televised reports of indiscriminate bombings, civilian casualties, and fears/speculations of nuclear war. When...

Trauma and World Literature: Walt Whitman’s “The Wound Dresser” – Harold Kudler

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 31, 2022 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

Perhaps 25 years ago, I spent an afternoon sorting through Duke University’s collection of Walt Whitman’s personal papers searching for anything he had written during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). I knew that Whitman worked with casualties in...

Trauma and World Literature: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Howard Lipke, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 27, 2022 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

A recent essay by Vivian Gornick addressed the destructive psychological power of humiliating experience. She invokes Anton Chekov who “ ... once observed that the worst thing life can do to human beings is to inflict humiliation.” (p. 60.) While we all...

Trauma and World Literature: A Tragedy (in One Act) By Christian Scott Green – Harold Kudler, MD, and Howard Lipke, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 2, 2021 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

As contributing editors of this column, we have always encouraged submissions from writers and students of Literature. In this issue, we are pleased to present an offering from musician and poet Christian Scott Green. The author has provided an introductory statement...

Trauma and World Literature: Behold the Dark Gray Man: Triumphs and Trauma: The Controversial Life of Sholto ‎Douglas by Katharine Campbell, PhD – Wing Commander Walter Busuttil MBChB MPhil MRCGP FRCPsych RAF(Retd) ‎

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 30, 2021 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

Sholto, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in WWI. He also served as the senior British officer in WWII in Fighter Command, the Middle East, in Coastal Command, and as military governor and Commander in Chief of the British Zone in...

Trauma and World Literature: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai – Howard Lipke, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 23, 2021 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts

The plague of COVID-19 is often compared to the influenza epidemic of a hundred years ago. Less often mentioned are commonalities between COVID-19 and the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Perhaps the similarities are not so apparent because now, at least in economically...