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May 12, 2017, 4:25 pm
Post-traumatic sex disorder
Heal sexual dysfunction may begin with treating PTSD, especially in Israel, where trauma is part of the climate
By Talli Rosenbaum
April 25, 2017, 3:54 pm
In Nepal: From rubble to resilience
Hard-earned Israeli trauma expertise has empowered women to rebuild communities devastated by the 2015 earthquake
By Naomi L. Baum
April 21, 2017, 11:27 am
9 tips for resilience in a world gone mad
He offers adults the tools to help kids cope with trauma that will also help themselves
By Jeremy Chwat
March 8, 2017, 7:45 am
Esther, heroine for those who must hide
An ode to all who cloak their authentic selves, and a prayer that they find inner connectedness, and a safe place to share
By Yael Unterman
A bulldozer destroys a home built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on March 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
March 2, 2017, 1:51 pm
Ofra: Shaken ground
Eyewitness to one woman's refusal to fight the police evacuation of her family home, and at a loss of how to help
By Karen Zivan
Groups of soldiers receiving psycho-social support following a terror attack on January 8, 2017, on the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem, where a truck rammed into a group of soldiers on a tour. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
January 8, 2017, 9:12 pm
In mass terror attacks, psychologists on the heels of EMTs
First responders include trained psychologists and social workers to help witnesses reconnect to reality in the face of trauma
By Melanie Lidman
Israeli medics evacuate a woman in shock from her home after a Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona Thursday July 27, 2006.
July 18, 2016, 12:58 pm
A decade on, ready and filled with dread
The CEO of northern Israel's trauma hospital sees a looming threat that dwarfs the destruction wrought by Lebanon Two
By Masad Barhoum
Fredzia Marmur, a Holocaust survivor, was one of 60 refugees identified by the filmmakers of ‘Every Face Has a Name,’ a 2015 documentary based on 1945 newsreel footage from the Swedish port Malmo (courtesy: Menemsha Films)
December 29, 2015, 11:00 pm
Nazi refugees ‘tagged’ in liberation documentary
Seven decades after disembarking at a Swedish port, those who fled Hitler discover themselves in digitally enhanced rescue footage
By Matt Lebovic
Jerusalemites walk by a large sign reading 'The main thing is not to fear at all.' posted in downtown Jerusalem following the recent wave of terror attacks (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)
November 22, 2015, 1:07 pm
Emotional first aid for the trauma of terror
Therapist sees a region whose nervous system needs a 'release of fear' on both an individual and a mass level
By Jessica Steinberg
Dutch trauma expert Jan Andreae teaches a workshop in Gaza in 2013. (screen grab: YouTube)
September 10, 2015, 11:55 pm
Right-wingers protest Gaza film screening, then watch it
After 'Shivering in Gaza' is shown in Yeruham, demonstrators sit down with event organizers for a fertile debate
By Tamar Pileggi
A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)
August 26, 2015, 3:07 am
Holocaust trauma can be inherited, study finds
Genetic research suggests parents' responses to environmental stresses can find their way into DNA of children
By Andrew Tobin
Doctors at the Wolfson Medical Center perform open heart surgery in Holon, Israel, September 12, 2011. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 12, 2014, 3:23 pm
Once inside Israel’s hospitals, the ‘terrorist’ becomes the ‘patient’
It's an acquired skill, but Israeli trauma physicians treating the new wave of Palestinian terrorists somehow manage to leave their emotions at the door
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
September 5, 2014, 8:14 pm
Marijuana could keep PTSD in check, study suggests
Israeli researchers say rats given a man-made version of the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana were immune to ‘trauma reminders’
By Andrew Tobin
Ido Ozeri, one of the owners of Archies bar and restaurant in Ashkelon, passes out shots courtesy of a bar tab from American-Israeli Yigal Rechtman on Tuesday, the first night of the ceasefire. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
August 6, 2014, 6:31 pm
L’Chaim to a ceasefire
An outing in Ashkelon on the first night of quiet, with a bar tab picked up by an American-Israeli who won't let terror win
By Melanie Lidman
Young Israeli women take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza, November 21, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/FLASH90)
August 4, 2014, 7:19 am
Israeli teens’ mental health worsens when Arab-Israeli conflict does
Long conflict -- especially drawn out periods of terrorism -- wears on teen psyche, 14-year study shows
By Andrew Tobin
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