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What Is Collective Trauma?

By Danielle Render Turmaud — 2020

How it could be impacting us.

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

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George A. Bonanno
2025
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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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Our Collective Trauma - Nikki Young - TEDxNorthCentralCollege

Can the study of trauma be key to collective healing in the United States? This talk aims to use Indonesia's September 30, 1965 as a window for understanding America's collective trauma after September 11, 2001.

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2017
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Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

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Christine Caldwell (editor), Lucia Bennett Leighton (editor)
2018
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What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth

For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma.

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Stephen Joseph
2013
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What Do You Recommend for Healing Trauma?

Sometimes it may be difficult to see past trauma, to be completely in the moment without excessive thinking or managing past trauma. Eckhart offers a compassionate look at suffering through the lens of awakening.

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Eckhart Tolle
2020
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Trauma, Healing and the Brain

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Gabor Maté
2015
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Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma — Dani Bostick

Most discussions of PTSD focus on veterans to the extent that many people who suffer from PTSD are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, especially among our children.

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2018
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Karen Treisman: Good Relationships Are the Key to Healing Trauma

Dr. Treisman talks about the importance of forging good relationships and effective society-wide systems when it comes to understanding and healing trauma.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2018
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Moving Beyond Trauma: The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality

Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them.

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Ilene Smith
2020
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