Trauma creates overwhelming feelings of vulnerability and helplessness that cannot be cognitively processed into a meaningful and integrated narrative (Horowitz, 1982; Bromberg, 1998).

Daedalus, Vol. 151, No. 1, Reimagining Justice: The Challenges of Violence & Punitive Excess (Winter 2022), pp. 67-83 (17 pages) The focus of this essay is on understanding the development and ...

Matthew Brandon was six years old when he made his way into Chris and Shannon Gardiner's life. The boy was non-verbal and had complex needs, and he had already been moved around a lot in the foster ...

A psychiatrist shares her experience working with Native communities and how understanding historical trauma can begin the ...

We’ve long known the short-term effects of trauma — headaches, changes in appetite or sleep, fear, anxiety and concentration troubles are just a few. A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Lotus Affect is a nonprofit that aims to end intergenerational trauma and provide mental health services. One of the programs the organization offers works with mothers ...

The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports invite submissions to a Collection on Intergenerational Transmission. Submissions may cover topics in economics, ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.