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  • Trauma Stored in the Body

    Trauma Stored in the Body

    Today, experts are studying “embodied trauma,” or when someone has unexplainable physical symptoms that are assumed to be caused by past traumas. Anecdotally, clinical psychologist and dance/movement therapist Ilene Serlin, PhD, says some of her clients who can’t verbally express what they’re feeling or talk about their trauma sometimes experience physical symptoms associated with that trauma. Through her…

  • Suicide with Hostile Intent

    Suicide with Hostile Intent

    According to Freud all suicides contemplate both a wish to die, to express a pressure to self-destruction that cannot be worked through, and the intent to harm anyone the suicidal person thinks has caused the unbearable pain leading them to self-imposed death. In general, those who kill themselves rarely wish to stop living: more often…