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

March 2, 2017
1:51 pm

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)

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

January 8, 2017
9:12 pm

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)

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

July 18, 2016
12:58 pm

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.

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

December 29, 2015
11:00 pm

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)

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

November 22, 2015
1:07 pm

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)

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

September 10, 2015
11:55 pm

Dutch trauma expert Jan Andreae teaches a workshop in Gaza in 2013. (screen grab: YouTube)

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

August 26, 2015
3:07 am

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)

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

November 12, 2014
3:23 pm

Doctors at the Wolfson Medical Center perform open heart surgery in Holon, Israel, September 12, 2011. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

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

September 5, 2014
8:14 pm

A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

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

August 6, 2014
6:31 pm

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)

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

August 4, 2014
7:19 am

Young Israeli women take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza, November 21, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/FLASH90)

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

Topic: trauma

Post-traumatic sex disorder

Heal sexual dysfunction may begin with treating PTSD, especially in Israel, where trauma is part of the climate

In Nepal: From rubble to resilience

Hard-earned Israeli trauma expertise has empowered women to rebuild communities devastated by the 2015 earthquake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holocaust trauma can be inherited, study finds

Genetic research suggests parents’ responses to environmental stresses can find their way into DNA of children

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

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’

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

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

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