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What Even Is Trauma?
Trauma was the word of the year in 2018, according to the Oxford Dictionary. That was the same year I decided my tenure working as a communications specialist in the federal government needed to end. I felt I had achieved all I was going to, and that it was...
Before and After Loss: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Loss, Grief and the Brain
Loss is traumatic. It wasn’t until I experienced my husband’s death that I learned how disorienting, harrowing and perilous it is to lose people close to us. To lose something that is simply basic to who we are and how we make sense of our lives. As a...
The Evolving Conception of PTSD
Perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, PTSD is a vehicle for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness. Examining the social evolution of PTSD provides an especially good way of showing how valuations of psychiatric diagnoses...
Book Trailer: Calming Your Anxious Child
Ten million children in the United States—two million of them preschoolers—suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents’ sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist...