Trauma survivors often oscillate between intrusion (floods of memory) and constriction (shutting down or disappearing) ...

About 7% of veterans and service members have PTSD but only a quarter of them who enroll in psychotherapy treatments actually ...

Understanding the difference between trauma and emotional wounds can lighten your story and make healing far more accessible ...

No one walks through trauma untouched. Even when you tell yourself you’ll rise above it, outgrow it, or break the cycle—it has a way of rewiring your emotional responses in ways you never saw coming.

Most people think fawning is people-pleasing, but trauma experts say it’s much deeper. According to therapist Pete Walker, ...

Objectification is a form of relational trauma that is often overlooked in therapy. Instead of a full person with their own ...

New research published in the Journal of Personality provides evidence that fundamental assumptions about the nature of the ...

Emotional wounds from past experiences might seem confined to your mental landscape, but medical research increasingly confirms what many health practitioners have long suspected: the burden of ...

Orla Muldoon receives funding from European Research Council (agreement 884927). My early TV viewing preferences were perhaps a clue that I’d make a career researching psychological trauma. I spent my ...

As a gathering body of evidence continues to exhibit a link between one’s mental and physical health, many hospitals are doing more to facilitate an integrated approach to physical and mental care. At ...

You probably think your hair is just sitting there looking pretty (or not so pretty on bad hair days), but it’s actually functioning as a biological record keeper, documenting every major emotional ...

Corewell Health in Grand Rapids unveiled a first-of-its-kind facility in West Michigan, a trauma recovery center for ...