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You probably won’t get it.", "url": "https://traumatheory.com/good-depression-treatment/", "published_at": "2025-01-21T17:56:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c58-539d-72cf-bdc1-de4535d6eb38", "title": "A surprisingly good article on the social function of Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score: We’re all victims now", "url": "https://traumatheory.com/why-van-der-kolk-so-influential/", "published_at": "2025-01-21T05:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c58-539d-72cf-bdc1-de453689f207", "title": "People come here to die: Winnicott and the the trauma of old age", "url": "https://traumatheory.com/people-come-here-to-die/", "published_at": "2025-01-21T05:00:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c58-539d-72cf-bdc1-de453705cffa", "title": "Mourning and Melancholia: narcissism or object relations?", "url": "https://traumatheory.com/mourning-and-melancholia-is-wrong/", "published_at": "2023-07-16T17:13:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c58-539d-72cf-bdc1-de4538022356", "title": "Kandel, The disordered mind. 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2026

Intergenerational Trauma: How Family Silence and the Past Shape Future Generationsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Collective Trauma: How Communities Remember and Recover From Shared Sufferingoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Trauma and Testimony: Why Speaking About Pain Is So Difficultoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Trauma Theory in Literature: How Stories Represent Pain, Memory, and Silenceoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Trauma and Psychoanalysis: How Relationships Shape Healingoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Trauma and Meaning: Why Life Can Feel Different After Traumaoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Trauma and Memory: Why the Past Can Feel Presentoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
PTSD and Dissociation: Why Trauma Can Make the Mind Feel Dividedoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
Trauma Theory and PTSD: How Trauma Affects Memory, Fear, and Meaningoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
What Is Trauma Theory? Meaning, PTSD, Memory, Literature, and Psychoanalysisoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Suddenly I’m Old and Death Approachesoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
Suicide: Why Did My Friend Kill Himself? Why Does Anyone?original ↗
7 Feb 2026

2025

PTSD and the death driveoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2025
Aftermath, by Preti Taneja: trauma is not on the pageoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Peter Levine goes further than Bessel van der Kolk on the importance of body memoryoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Literary theory is not trauma theoryoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
We know what good depression treatment looks like. You probably won’t get it.original ↗
21 Jan 2025
A surprisingly good article on the social function of Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score: We’re all victims noworiginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
People come here to die: Winnicott and the the trauma of old ageoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025

2023

Mourning and Melancholia: narcissism or object relations?original ↗
16 Jul 2023
Kandel, The disordered mind. Or was Descartes wrong?original ↗
28 May 2023
Stephanie Foo went through hell, finally coming to terms with C-PTSDoriginal ↗
3 May 2023
Judith Herman’s new book, Truth and Repair is disappointingoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2023
Caste, hate, and the trauma of forgivenessoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2023

2020

There is no cult of Trumporiginal ↗
2 Dec 2020

2018

Using Psychoanalysis to Understand #MeToo Memoriesoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2018
Can psychoanalysis explain why people can be so cruel? Klein and Mitchelloriginal ↗
21 Sept 2018
Epigenetics: of mice and men and womenoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2018
PTSD is Tortureoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2018

2017

Dori Laub has a bad trauma theory, but he has still made a contributionoriginal ↗
5 May 2017
Is it time to drop the diagnosis of PTSD?original ↗
29 Jan 2017

2016

Trauma is the disruption of the ability to maintain relationships. Psychoanalysis can help.original ↗
9 Nov 2016
Are PTSD and C-PTSD dissociative disorders? Does it matter?original ↗
30 Oct 2016
It’s time to stop letting the stressor define PTSDoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2016
The best trauma narrative I know is Aftermathoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2016
Testimony creates the trauma it discoversoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2016
Trauma escapes language, but so does lifeoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2016
Trauma destroys meaning. Psychoanalysis is not always helpful.original ↗
12 Jun 2016
Affect Theory and Trauma Theoryoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2016
The imitation of trauma by those who study itoriginal ↗
20 May 2016
Epigenetic transmission of trauma: gene or meme?original ↗
11 May 2016
Review of Stolorow’s Trauma and Human Existence, with remarks on his use of Heideggeroriginal ↗
30 Apr 2016
Dori Laub, trauma, and a Holocaust without witnessesoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2016
How trauma devalues the good pastoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2016
Trauma and the pleasure principleoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2016
Other people’s traumas: the limits of languageoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2016
Trauma as Attachmentoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2016
What I learned about PTSD from the University of Googleoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2016
What if Bessel van der Kolk is right about trauma?original ↗
18 Feb 2016
Levinas, trauma, and God: Does Emmanuel Levinas idealize trauma?original ↗
7 Feb 2016
Moral injury in civilian life: a new category of traumaoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2016
Depoliticizing moral injuryoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2016
Trauma theory and Melanie Kleinoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2016
The lesson of trauma comes from its content, not formoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016
Did literary trauma theory encourage the Iraq War?original ↗
1 Jan 2016

2015

The Trauma of Rape Can Be Toldoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2015
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a terrible way to treat trauma. And it’s government approved.original ↗
17 Dec 2015
Trauma narratives without the narrator: a trauma markeroriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
From a trauma perspective, Freud’s fort-da game replaces Oedipusoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
The assumptive world theory of traumaoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2015
Psychoanalysis is itself a defense against trauma: Wilfred Bion, post 2original ↗
18 Nov 2015
Bion’s Trauma and Trauma Theoryoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2015
An imagination for stressors: trauma as a global networkoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2015