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What Ails Us

By Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate — 2012

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

Read on www.thesunmagazine.org

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Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the tools to heal and thrive. Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging.

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Elizabeth A. Stanley
2019
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context.

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Judith Herman
2015
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Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves.

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Richard F. Mollica
2025
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We Went to a Support Group for Black People in America

Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.

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2020
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The Moth Presents Andrew Solomon: The Refugees

A survivor of the Pol Pot's death squads teaches an American to handle depression.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Horizons 2018: Monnica Williams Ph.D. on “Race-Based Trauma”

“Race-Based Trauma: The Challenge and Promise of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy” Monnica Williams, Ph.D.

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Monnica Williams
2019
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Monnica Williams: The Experience of Racism Is an Assault on Mental Health

My guest on the show today is Dr. Monnica T. Williams, certified licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Monnica is researching how PTSD symptoms can result from racism and what racial trauma and race-based trauma look like.

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Monnica Williams
2020
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Psychedelic Psychotherapy Is Coming: Who Will Be Included? | PLS

Recently, there has been much excitement in the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to address a multitude of mental health conditions, including depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, addiction, end-of-life anxiety, and others. However, not everyone has been included.

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Monnica Williams
2020
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Dr. James Gordon on How to Begin to Heal from Our Collective Trauma and Stress of the Pandemic

This week’s episode of Next Question with Katie Couric is dedicated to acknowledging the individual traumas and shared trauma of this year and learning how we can begin to heal.

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James Gordon
2021
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Trauma: A Social Theory

In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.

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Jeffrey C. Alexander
2025
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Emotional and Mental Health