Category: care and caregiving
The exciting reason PTSD Bookclub has been resting
What if the body politic kept the score?
Apologies for delays on the PTSD Bookclub and announcements about new and upcoming work on community violence, PTSD, and care from Virginia Eubanks! Continue reading What if the body politic kept the score?
What My Bones Know, Pt 2: Intergenerational Trauma and Family Policing
In this week’s PTSDBookclub, we discuss eugenics, epigenetics, intergenerational trauma, and Parts II and III of Stephanie Foo’s *What My Bones Know.* Continue reading What My Bones Know, Pt 2: Intergenerational Trauma and Family Policing
What My Bones Know, Pt 1: The keel. The drone. The untiring ear.
In this weeks #PTSDBookclub, we discuss Part I of Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, the cycle of trauma, dissociation, work as coping strategy, and communication issues. And also weigh in the ongoing debate about content and trigger warnings on Mastodon. Continue reading What My Bones Know, Pt 1: The keel. The drone. The untiring ear.
The Evil Hours, Pt 1: “the sheer weight of unprocessed dread”
In this week’s PTSDBookclub, we discuss the first two chapters of David J. Morris’ *The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (2015), and discuss the pandemic, repression, and PTSD as social wound. Continue reading The Evil Hours, Pt 1: “the sheer weight of unprocessed dread”
Heart Berries, Pt 2: Loyalty to Monsters
This week, we discuss the second half of Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, monstrousness, trauma, and loyalty. Continue reading Heart Berries, Pt 2: Loyalty to Monsters
Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.
This final week of August, #PTSDBookclub discusses the final third of Mac McClelland’s Irritable Hearts, the power of work, and PTSD as a chronic and regularly fatal disease. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.
Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma
On the Fourth of July, we explore “explosive” and “erosive” trauma through the writing of Maggie O’Farrell and Bat Barker. Continue reading Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma
Regeneration, Part 3: The Male Mothers of Trauma
A discussion of masculinity, PTSD, and care in Pat Barker’s wonderful novel, Regeneration. Continue reading Regeneration, Part 3: The Male Mothers of Trauma
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