by ISTSS Blogs | May 4, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
As we persevere through the coronavirus battle together, yet apart, I am reminded of a veteran patient of mine who lost his brother near the end of World War II. His poignant account of the special bond that was severed by his brother’s death inspired me to...
by ISTSS Blogs | May 4, 2020 | COVID-19, StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, I’ve been listening to my clients’ reactions, as well as those of my family and friends, to the first couple of months of the COVID-19 crisis. Universally, people have been reacting to the “surreal”...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 26, 2020 | Events, News, Trauma and the Arts
Dear Fellow ISTSS Members: As many of you know, Howard Lipke and I have long coedited the Trauma and World Literature column in StressPoints. Through it, we’ve learned that our members are often inspired by connections they find between what they...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 21, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Whenever horrors of life are portrayed as being perpetrated within a particular culture, as they are in A Woman is No Man, by Etaf Rum, there must be concern that readers outside that culture will see this to be a fair representation of that group of people as a...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 21, 2020 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Homer’s Iliad, the first surviving piece of European literature, is an epic narrative about the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. The soldier’s obligation to his family and community, the drive for revenge, and the unbearable costs during and...
by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 11, 2019 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Media plays a key role in informing the general public about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through this process of information dissemination, we (i.e., the public) form opinions on this diagnosis based on the portrayal of mental health in media coverage....
