Stories
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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A wee spot of bother
Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
Catalogue
- Books
Digging for victory : horticultural therapy with veterans for post-traumatic growth / Joanna Wise.
Wise, JoannaDate: 2015- Books
Compassion fatigue : coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized / edited by Charles R. Figley.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Videos
Not forgotten.
Date: 1994- Books
The body remembers : the psychophysiology of trauma and trauma treatment / Babette Rothschild.
Rothschild, BabetteDate: [2000]- Books
A casebook of cognitive therapy for traumatic stress reactions / edited by Nick Grey.
Date: 2009