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Fly-bys by RAAF Super Hornets and army helicopters are a noisy finale to the Brisbane Festival. While many find this sound awe-inspiring, what of those with lived experience of war?
Researchers are getting closer to understanding how some people are more susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder.
PTSD isn’t just reserved for those on the frontline – my experience alongside a surgical team at Camp Bastion showed how it could affect anyone dealing with the fall out of war.
Animals have complex experiences of trauma. Treating them is very similar to dealing with humans, requiring compassion, calm and common sense.
Journalists face psychological trauma from producing news even when they are distant from the scene of violent incidents. What can news organizations do?
How academic sleuthing uncovered the Edinburgh setting for a historic meeting of three of the greatest war poets
Virtual reality has been used to treat phobias for many years, but medical researchers have began to discover that it can do so much more than that.
Attacks can have a serious impact on mental health – and contribute to a disturbing negative cycle.
Terrorism, confusion and fear are leaving many feeling demoralized. While not quite on the level of depression, demoralization is still something to pay attention to. Here are some ways to do that.
Using creativity and artistic metaphor to tap unconscious memories helps release pent up trauma.
Children’s imaginations around events can be even more frightening than reality.
How to help people emotionally come to terms with the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
The inability to reconcile wartime actions with a personal moral code can create lasting psychological consequences for veterans.
It is often assumed that police are at higher risk of suicide than other members of the community because of the stress involved in their jobs. But the picture is more complicated than that.
A cheap antibiotic may help prevent the formation of fearful memories.
Mental health trauma has always been a part of war. Treatments have come a long way over the last century, but we still don’t understand why the responses change for different people and times.
When we think of post-traumatic stress disorder, we tend to think of soldiers returning from war. But other sections of society are far more likely to suffer from repeated bouts of trauma.
The pains of the past carry into the future, especially for groups of people who have been mistreated for decades or even centuries. Here is not only why that happens but also how you can help.
Researchers are finding medical uses for some molecules in certain street drugs, but it’s important to call the drugs by their real names. Here’s why that’s important.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor & Director, Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Chair of Clinical Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Paramedicine and Head of Department, Rural Allied Health, La Trobe University
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Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology UNSW Sydney and Daphne Keats Chair in Cross-Cultural Psychology, University of Newcastle
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Professorial Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Homewood Research Chair in Mental Health and Trauma, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University