![On The Verge](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/12/F549E79F-0F8F-4832-8CF8-F764C1709ABC-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
When one thinks of Vincent Van Gogh oftentimes his artwork is brought to mind – but what about the man behind the paintbrush? Plagued by…
![A History of The Mind](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/06/5C1398D9-0E33-48F1-8A3F-E63FCF751444-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The acrylic and oil painting Psychology Books is an homage to mental health. Toronto artist Holly Farrell painted vintage psychology books that she has collected…
![In The Depth](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/06/F0C50169-9136-4005-90FB-CC0ECE023D62-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Elham Fatapour is a Toronto-based artist and a graduate of York University with an MFA in visual arts. Her recent work includes painting, performance, and mixed-media…
![History, Trauma, Images, Hero, Death, Hope, Massacre, PTSD, Warfare, Triumph](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/06/C84F9E58-1177-4C4B-9991-C19FA80A9499-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This infamous image was captured in 1989 by Jeff Widener during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. A horrific historical tragedy that left an uncountable number of…
![Madness on Display](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/08/Old-Illia-July-Feature-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The disturbing details beautifully rendered in the final painting of William Hogarth‘s eight-painting project A Rake’s Progress (1735) continues to draw attention to the scandalous…
![Japanese suicide forest, aokigahara, suicide, pain, coping, death, mental illness, depression, grief, prevention, history, loss, Azusa Hayano, VICE, documentary, Mount Fuji](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/07/Old-Amanda-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This VICE documentary on the Aokigahara Forest, otherwise known as the Japanese “suicide forest,” follows Azusa Hayano, a geologist, who studies the plantation at the…
![Inaccurate Views of Mental Illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/03/asylum__madness_returns_by_ark4n-d4zu6nf-_-Deviant-Art-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This historical image is a poster from the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene (CNCMH), formed in 1918 when knowledge of mental illness was still…
![Requiem](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Tree-_-geralt-_-Pixaby-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The poem ‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova documents the trauma and suffering of the Russian people under Joseph Stalin. The poem was conceived as she waited…