“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner There are moments in clinical practice when someone describes anxiety, insomnia, depression, or a persistent sense of dread, and yet ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers insight into how past stress impacts a person's response to new stress. There are two leading hypotheses about how ...

Many people have suffered emotional or physical trauma. Even when they have worked hard to heal, they will always be vulnerable to being triggered by an event that unearths those painful moments.

Christine Fader shares how her husband’s past trauma shaped his cancer treatment experience and why awareness and patient empowerment matter. After her husband, Michael, was diagnosed with two ...

In the first part of this series, I presented research suggesting, perhaps for the first time, that therapy focused on changing how people feel in the here-and-now can be incredibly helpful even ...

Over the past few decades, researchers have developed effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a psychiatric disorder some people develop after experiencing trauma. These ...