Vietnam veterans fought a second war at home to get recognition and treatment. That fight created the modern VA mental health ...

Olena is one of many Ukrainians participating in live psychotherapy sessions as the war continues. The patient-therapist ...

Films and documentaries often focus on soldiers, but PTSD is not confined to combatants. Civilians caught in bombardments, people who have survived displacement, journalists, humanitarian workers, and ...

As the United States reflects on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War this year, researchers from UC Davis and UC San Francisco have uncovered major insight into the trauma and ...

Violent conflicts and atrocities can seem omnipresent in the world — and all the more traumatic in an age when wars are fought by terrorizing civilians more than by squaring off against a rival ...

Memorial Day was founded after the Civil War to honor those fallen Union soldiers and sailors who gave their lives to prevent the dismemberment of our nation and free those Black Americans kept in ...

“The real war,” Walt Whitman famously wrote about the Civil War, “won’t get into the books.” He was thinking about the indescribable horror of that conflict, of a trauma that could not be expressed in ...

On Oct 6. Salma Shurrab said goodbye to her hometown without knowing it. Breaking her usual midnight curfew, she indulged in a late-night car ride. With her cousin, Rana Alghussain, in the passenger ...

Joseph Henry Suina, 81, is finally showing signs of healing, six decades after serving two tours in the Vietnam War.

Fergal Keane has met thousands of traumatised children while reporting on conflicts. Here, he researches the long-term effect ...

From Ukraine to Sudan to Gaza, war takes a devastating toll on children. UNICEF estimates that more than 400 million children globally live in areas affected by war or other conflict. While the ...