This post was co-written by Dr. Deryn Strange, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College. Our memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past. Instead, remembering a past event is a ...

As women’s personal agency feels increasingly under threat, our ability to stay grounded and self-governing may be more important than ever. Culturally, women’s mental and physical well-being has been ...

The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, focused on treating intrusive, vivid, and unwanted memories of trauma, a core symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The treatment – called ...

In the study, participants’ traumatic memories were first reactivated, and only then was brain stimulation applied — precisely at the stage when the memory is in a “flexible” state and amenable to ...

By revisiting the event years later, he affirms the importance of testimony, not as spectacle, but as an act of respect and collective memory. Intended for readers of literary nonfiction, memoir, ...