During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

Memories can be immensely powerful, and for people struggling with mental health conditions, that power can be a burden. Memory keeps a record of what has made someone uneasy or upset, what undercut a ...

I appreciate the effort by Krista Foss to include perspectives from different experts on the recovered memory issue (Memory Bites -- July 14), but there are important pieces of information missing ...

Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.

Annie Walker clutched a crumpled tissue and a packet of documents as she waited to be called in for the hearing. She wore leopard-print flats, black slacks and a bulky black sweater — an outfit she’d ...

Whether framed as historical or liberatory, memory work is helping survivors of state-inflicted violence process and begin healing from their trauma. A few years later, the Escuela de Música ...

Annie Walker woke up one morning in 2019 with little recollection of the night before. She had bruises on her arms, legs, wrist and lower abdomen. "But I literally had no idea what had happened," she ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...