![When a Subway Passenger Dies by Suicide, Workers Suffer Too](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/10/feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In an article in a Canadian daily, The Globe and Mail, Oliver Moore reported that during 2016, 21 suicide attempts occurred on Toronto’s subway system….
![Trauma Exposure Linked to PTSD in 911 Dispatchers](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/09/Feature-_-AF5-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In February 2016, Gail—a 911 dispatcher with Toronto Paramedic Services—found herself in tears at work. She had just received a call about Wallace Passos, a…
![When Parental Choices Have Fatal Consequences](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/08/Feature3-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The loss of a child, one of the most painful experiences a parent can go through, is made that much worse when the parent’s own…
![Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/07/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist well known for his work on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), has written once again on the origins and consequences…
![Book Review: “The Trauma of Everyday Life”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/01/book-review-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist and Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, became involved with Buddhism when he was a Harvard undergraduate. Over…