One way to understand the troubling reactions that follow a traumatic experience is to think of them as emotional pain. These reactions,...

Trauma is not new; it has always been part of the human experience. What is fairly new is the high level of awareness and interest in...

There's been an upsurge in our awareness of emotional trauma in recent years. Have you noticed? Out of curiosity, I used the Google Ngram...

(A metaphor for understanding the effects of sustained survival-mode activation.) The well-known "fight, flight, or freeze" concept...