Trauma is a deeply disturbing event that infringes upon an individual’s sense of control and may reduce their capacity to integrate the situation or circumstances into their current reality. When most ...

If talk therapy hasn’t unraveled painful patterns in your life, it might be because your body is partially stuck in the past. Depression,anxiety, panic attacks, feeling checked out and numb; these ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When you grow up in unpredictable environments or experience something ...

Though often discussed in the context of personal health, trauma can significantly impact our external lives. While it may not always be obvious, someone working through past or present trauma can ...

These days, it's common to scroll through social media feeds and see certain "buzzy" terms in captions and on images, like "gaslighting," "golden handcuffs," "brightsiding," "parentification" and ...

Alberta SJ van der Watt’s research was supported by the South African Research Chair in PTSD funded by the Department of Science and Innovation, and administered by the National Research Foundation ...