Journalism has been described as the first rough draft of history, with reporters often bearing witness to the world’s most ...
In "Beloved," Toni Morrison uses allegory and narrative structure to show the ways trauma can disrupt a life. For many sufferers of PTSD, complicated feelings accompany the prospect of relinquishing ...
Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...
The slippage is especially drastic with young voters. In the 2024 election, a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds voted for Kamala Harris, but compared with 2020, young voters swung hard toward Trump.
A controversial film about the Lin family massacre sparks outrage in Taiwan, reigniting debates on historical trauma and ...
But psychology offers a more nuanced explanation. Some research suggests that between the ages of about 12 and 25, our brains are especially sensitive to social and cultural cues. During this time, we ...
As a psychologist in the occupied West Bank, I thought I understood trauma. Then came the call from a dying 5-year-old trapped in Gaza.
Nelly Dean is the narrator of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a housekeeper who serves three generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families. Less a character and more a narrative device, she doesn’t have ...
Across generations and cultures, more women are questioning whether marriage offers companionship or merely reinforces systems of control, inheritance and unequal compromise.
The Aboriginal filmmaker drew on his own family history to tell the story of Indigenous children forced into labor in Australia’s tungsten mines in the 1930s.
Decades of research on attachment and developmental trauma tells us what happens when we separate children under terrifying conditions.
The annual breakfast commemorating the National Apology was held in Canberra on Friday, where the prime minister announced new funding for survivors of the Stolen Generations. Source: AAP / Sitthixay ...