by ISTSS Blogs | May 27, 2021 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
The award-winning poet, Jim Moore, author of the poem that follows in this issue’s column, writes in his autobiographical statement that as a young teacher two of his students dropped out of school. These students were subsequently drafted, sent to Vietnam, and...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 1, 2021 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Thucydides, author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, is known for his compelling historical narrative and political analysis of the late fifth century (431– 404 BCE) war between Athens and Sparta. Centuries of thinkers have praised Thucydides as the first...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 26, 2021 | Trauma and the Arts
She’s Gotta Have It, Episode 5 Written by Barry Michael Cooper Produced and Directed by Spike Lee First aired on Netflix November 23, 2017 In the Netflix TV series, She’s Gotta Have It, produced by Spike Lee and based on his award-winning film of the same...
by ISTSS Blogs | Nov 24, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
In these times—no, in any time—we can be grateful for the cheer of a great comic novel about a seemingly gentler world. Gibbons’ 1932 Cold Comfort Farm is just such a masterpiece. Its heroine, Flora Poste, rivals Wodehouse’s Jeeves in her...
by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 24, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, And a child that's born on...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 30, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Readers of this StressPoints column know that we strive to share the wisdom and sometimes awful beauty of the Arts to promote understanding of the psychological effects of trauma and aid in overcoming its destructive effects. With the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity finds...