“Sitting constantly in dilapidated cars wrecks their spines, and the ceaseless shouting that goes on in the streets of Cairo destroys their nervous systems,” Khaled Al Khamissi wrote in his 2007 book Taxi , a collection of...
With a newly developed computer model, researchers were able to successfully predict which 5 percent of U.S. Army soldiers committed more than one-third of all major Army workplace violent crimes over a six-year period. The researchers said that the...
The Justice Department’s upcoming release of some 6,000 nonviolent drug offenders is an unprecedented move that has been hailed by proponents of criminal justice reform. A top attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union called it...
When a Florida woman failed to show up to court to testify against her husband, who allegedly choked her in front of their toddler, a judge tore into her before putting her behind bars. A Florida judge is under fire for berating a victim...
At the end of October, I'll be ending my blog, Trauma's Labyrinth . I want to thank you for reading my posts. I have greatly appreciated the emails, comments, and exchanges I have had with many of you, and the opportunity to learn...
C ourtesy of Dr. Sandra Paulsen (left) & D. Michael Coy, MA, LCSW [Kathy's preface: First I discovered it deep within myself and called it trauma since the sperm hit the egg. Then I read that Bessel van der Kolk calls it developmental trauma, in his drive to have it finally recognized by the psychiatric profession. Dr. Allan Schore calls it trauma in the first 1000 days, conception to age...
When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide. Suicide gets a lot less attention than...
Many people who experience mental illness feel like they have to suffer in silence due to negative stereotypes associated with their conditions. Demi Lovato is actively working to change that. As the face of the Be Vocal mental...
Efforts to protect children in foster care from being inappropriately medicated with powerful antipsychotic drugs got a big boost forward on Tuesday, when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills into law designed to reform prescribing....
The world is at war. Pockets of civil unrest from Syria to Afghanistan put soldiers and civilians in harm’s way. And for those who live through the trauma, many now battle with post-traumatic stress disorder , in which their...
Researchers say unrecognized need for care among workers is a major barrier to treatment and contributes to productivity loss More than half of workers who reported symptoms of depression did not perceive a need for treatment, according to a...
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy was well on her way to becoming a pioneer this year—the first U.S. inmate to receive gender reassignment surgery—when she was unexpectedly freed from Mule Creek State Prison in California. In a ruling...
The Supreme Court’s landmark juvenile sentencing rulings establishing that youth should be treated differently than adults have had effects beyond the death penalty and juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences, says a recent ...
Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests. These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight,...
For decades, black parents have told their children that in order to succeed despite racial discrimination, they need to be “twice as good”: twice as smart, twice as dependable, twice as talented. This advice can be found in...