![Finding Peace through Art Making](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/07/July-23-Feature-Pic-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In leading a life of service and violence to defend their countries, many army veterans are plagued by mental health disorders that have lasting effects…
![A person walks away, disappearing into a tunnel of white light.](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/01/Feature-2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Physician Maxwell Cooper presents the case of a young man struggling with PTSD after years of torture. During one torture session the man recalled the…
![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…
![Medical Marijuana for PTSD?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/03/AN-_-Article-2-_-Feature-1-_-Cropped-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On October 1st, 2016, a Canadian medical marijuana company called Marijuana for Trauma opened a location in Edmonton, Alberta to treat PTSD in military veterans….
![Returning home to a different kind of battlefield](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/07/Early-morning-goodbye-to-lost-love-_-Richard-George-Davis-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Journalist Sebastien Junger shares his thoughts on the toll that a broken society takes on soldiers returning home from war. In this passionate TED Talk,…
![Killing the American Hero, Killing the Fair Trial](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/06/Feature-470x140.png?x81652)
Was he “insane” or not? That is the question jury members in Erath County, Texas addressed, on February 25th, 2015, during three hours of deliberation…
![Homelessness in the USA: The Cost of Going to War?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/09/homeless-veteran-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For most of us, walking by a homeless person who is curled up on a tattered blanket, asking for spare change seems like a common…