![mental illness, mental health, PTSD, recovery, trauma, therapy, hope, healing, rape, sexual abuse, memory, declarative memory](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/07/1B4C05B3-3804-4322-B7C1-50DD50511966-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape” – Amy…
![Amnesia](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/06/F037BA1F-291E-4FC7-9F64-D83BD0C288B8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Suse Silva is a Toronto based visual artist working in Toronto. She uses visual art as a way to express her internal experiences to being…
![The Riddle Of Experience Vs Memory](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/09/6FFF73DA-6AE2-4708-96D3-DD4725D43461-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Laureate and cognitive psychologist, uses humour and wit to deliver a compelling talk on the nature of memory and the divide…
![Rape Survivors’ Fragmented Memories Misunderstood by Media](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/01/Feature-3-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone Magazine published a story about sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA). The article exposed the brutality of…
![Nasal Spray May Prevent PTSD, Study Finds](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/03/Anjali-PTSD-Spray-feature-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The emotional connection between a memory and an event can be powerful. A child rescued from a house fire or a soldier returning from Afghanistan…
![Aerial Drawings By Stephen Wiltshire](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/04/autistic_artist_paints_ny_from_memory-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and found that he could communicate through his art. He has a photographic memory, and can…
![Forgetting PTSD: How Genes Affect Memory](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/13752f52880679ec1391798400-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Memory can be a double edged sword. It holds our identities, our relationships, our histories. But when memory holds our most unspeakable stories, it can…
![Unconscious Anxiety](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/02/ua_paris-470x140.jpg?x81652)
This piece, as well as other installations by Chiharu Shiota, evoke a sense of emotion in the threads that cocoon and entangle various objects and…
![The Globe of London](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/09/988_hard-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By artist, Stephen Wiltshire Stephen was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and found that he could communicate through his art. He has a photographic…