![Film Review: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/04/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-750x393-470x140.jpg?x81652)
At first glance it would seem Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is just another coming-of-age story, where teenage…
![Sports Team Gang Rapes: Are We Breeding Sexual Offenders?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/03/rapepic-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On August 11th, 2012 in Steubenville, Ohio, two high school football players kicked off the beginning of the season with a night of partying, drinking,…
![A War Vet’s Best Friend: Cutting the Cost of PTSD Service Dogs](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/03/feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
After his return from the Vietnam war, Raymond Galmiche, now 64, would experience nightmares, sleeplessness, and flashbacks. Trying to soothe his symptoms, he sought help…
![U.S. Gun Laws Mistakenly Target the Mentally Ill](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/03/Gun-Thoughts-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In the wake of public tragedy, there is widespread demand for change. Generalized, sweeping measures are often put in place as a quick response to…
![Film Review: “Silver Linings Playbook”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/03/Ruth.SilverLinings.FeaturedImage-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
With its unique blend of humour and tragedy that mirror true life circumstances, Silver Linings Playbook is a triumph. Directed by David O. Russell, it…
![Dissociative Identity Disorder: Drawing the Line between Fact and Fiction](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/02/Crystal.DID_.FeatureImage-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
In the 1996 film Primal Fear, Edward Norton plays Aaron Stampler, an altar boy charged with murdering an archbishop who had sexually abused him. Stampler…
![Fixing Gay: Corrective Rape in South Africa](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/02/Soweto-Pride-2010-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In 2009, Zukiswa Gaca, a 20-year-old lesbian woman in South African, decided to take her own life by laying down on the local train tracks…
![Your Gadgets, the Congo’s Chaos](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/04/technology-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Stop for a second and take a look at the cell phone, laptop or tablet you are using to read this article. Do you know…
![Never Before Have I Loved So Much: Review of Tosca](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/02/Scarpia-Tosca-D-0948-470x140.jpg?x81652)
http://youtu.be/n6kTmWYIAcw For over a century, the image of Floria Tosca plummeting to her death is one that haunts the hearts and minds of opera lovers…
![Wrongful Conviction, Psychological Trauma, and the Case of Amanda Knox](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/12/amanda-knox-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In September of 2007, twenty-year-old Amanda Knox arrived in Italy on an exchange program through the University of Washington where she was a student. Two months…