by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 11, 2019 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Orange, the son of a Cheyenne father, has written a novel which has received wide praise and major awards for how it tells the neglected story of modern urban Native American experience. In There There, Orange builds tension to an inevitable calamity through the...
by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 29, 2019 | International and Global, StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Ever since the release of her first album in 1992, the singer-songwriter Iris Dement has earned wide recognition and respect for her work. Her 2012 album, Sing the Delta, includes the song, The Night I Learned How Not to Pray. In the few minutes of her...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 1, 2019 | Military and Combat, StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
The challenges for many soldiers returning from war go beyond the potential for PTSD, moral injury, traumatic bereavement and a range of associated risks from increased rates of suicide to a host of physical illnesses. For many, the wounds include a sense of having...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 1, 2019 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
In Joshua Ferris’s clever and insightful first novel, Then We Came to the End, modern business office relationships are explored as the workers work, socialize and cope with life’s inevitable traumatic events. Along with enjoying prosperity and then...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 17, 2018 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
In Crimes of the Father, Thomas Keneally, a former seminarian and author of Booker Prize-winning Shindler’s List, takes on the history of widespread sexual abuse in the Catholic Church as it began to be revealed in the 1990s. In Keneally’s 2016...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 1, 2018 | StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
Written during the slaughter of the Peloponnesian War which engulfed the Greek world in the fifth century BCE, Euripides’ play The Trojan Women is one of the most unsparing pieces of anti-war literature ever written. It takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan...
