![“Love Hormone” Oxytocin Linked to Domestic Violence](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/03/noam2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For years the scientific study of relationships has centered on the hormone oxytocin. Made in our brains and traveling through our blood, oxytocin is said…
![Reactions to Domestic Violence](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/11/78024002-470x140.jpg?x81652)
An “experiment” around reactions to domestic violence. Reminiscent of Kitty Genovese.
![Lean on Me: Healing Domestic Abuse through Group Therapies](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/03/lean-on-me-470x140.png?x81652)
Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group…
![Photograph 1958, Patricia Young](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/A-Checkered-World-15-Photograph-1958-Patricia-Young-470x140.jpg?x81652)
My father and I play checkers In profile. He sits on the couch, leans forward on his elbow, there’s A low coffee table between us….