![Melissa Walker, art, masks, recovery, trauma, psychology, PTSD, TBI, mental illness, veterans, military, war, soldiers, creativity, artwork, video](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/08/Old-Me-August2-crop-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Melissa Walker is a creative art therapist who uses mask-making to help active service members recover from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic…
![PTSD a Reality for Urban Youth](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/01/24748139382_f6f6dfc4f0_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In this emotionally evocative spoken-word poem, Terisa Siagatonu draws parallels between youth facing urban street violence and soldiers experiencing combat. Both, Siagatonu claims, are at…
![Death Becomes Us: The Psychological Trauma of Killing](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/01/skulls-and-bones-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one, wounds himself with the other. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Psychiatric breakdown is one of…
![The View from Here: Interview with a Soldier's Sister](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/03/binoculars-on-plank-peter-levi-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The Trauma and Attachment Report recently interviewed a young Canadian soldier who had, only a short while ago, returned from active duty in Afghanistan. While…
![A Corporal Speaks: Ten Questions for a Canadian Who Served in Afghanistan](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/11/78024002-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The Trauma and Attachment Report interviewed a young Canadian soldier who recently returned from serving in Afghanistan. The reality of war is revealed through his personal…