PTSD

While he did not die in a war, he can certainly be mourned as a casualty of war—as can the thousands of other veterans who have died by suicide.

June, PTSD Awareness month, is a time to recognize how trauma has shaped our history.

Paul Landis, 88, is one of the few survivors who had a firsthand view of Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago Wednesday. He is only now telling his whole story.

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. Here's why that’s so significant, if true.

Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.

Resiliency and the ability to develop coping mechanisms may define our times.

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On "The Vietnam War."

The story of one veteran who could never find peace—until he made Vietnam his home.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.

“Postpartum depression” encompasses various debilitating changes in mood that can occur after giving birth. How did that language come to be?

In 2002, Republicans attacked the patriotism of a distinguished Democratic veteran. It worked and they've kept doing it ever since.

When the creator of MDMA first experimented with the drug, he felt a mellow sensation that he compared to "a low-calorie martini."

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.

In 1790, Philadelphia opened the first American penitentiary, with the nation’s first solitary cells. Black people were disproportionately punished from the start.

Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.

Civil War veterans could be unmanned by drinking too much, and their service did not insulate them from postwar blights on their manhood.

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.