VIDEO

FindCenter AddIcon

A Hero's Journey - Mallory's Story: How Ketamine Treatment Helped a Combat Veteran

2016

"A Hero’s Journey - Mallory’s Story” tells the story of a young Air Force veteran struggling with Depression, PTSD and CRPS from her time in the Gulf War. Mallory came to us for treatment. We documented her road to recovery.

19:59 min

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping

While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing.

Book
Cornelia Elbrecht
2025
FindCenter AddIcon

Can Traumatic Experiences Make You More Creative?

Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?

Article
Romeo Vitelli
2014
FindCenter AddIcon

The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

Article
Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
FindCenter AddIcon

After He and His Wife Are Diagnosed with Cancer, a Playwright Reckons with the Gift of Creativity that Trauma Can Bring

In the midst of trauma, everything means something. Signs and symbols appear. You’ve noticed them before, you’re a writer, but now you see them everywhere.

Article
Dan O'Brien
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.

Book
Sandra Marinella
2017
FindCenter AddIcon

Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W.

Book
James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth
2016
FindCenter AddIcon

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.

Book
Badia Ahad-Legardy
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Hero’s Journey