Trauma & Distressing Mental States

anything related to panic, anxiety, fear, hypervigilance

Mar 12, 2025

Necessary Questions: Seven Inquiries That Reveal the Hidden Self

What you avoid asking might be what you need to know most.

Amanda Stern

Mar 05, 2025

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.

Amanda Stern

Feb 05, 2025

The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors

A 19th Century Teacher's Campaign Revolutionized Patient Care

Amanda Stern

Jan 29, 2025

Medicine Without Medicine: The Radical Cure of a Beloved Cult Doctor

John Sarno and the History of Psychosomatic Illness

Amanda Stern

Jan 22, 2025

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Amanda Stern

Dec 18, 2024

The Science of Connection: What Four Decades of Attachment Research Reveals About Our Deepest Human Bonds

Understanding the Invisible Architecture of Human Attachment

Amanda Stern

Nov 20, 2024

The Art of Surrender: Finding Sleep at 3am

For Adam W, and for you...

Amanda Stern

Nov 13, 2024

In the Depths of Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit on Keeping Hope Alive

What we do now matters

Amanda Stern

Oct 23, 2024

On Loneliness and Exclusion: The Hidden Architecture of the Single Life

When One is the Loneliest Number

Amanda Stern

Oct 02, 2024

Art as Liberation: How a Viennese Psychiatric Institute Became a Sanctuary for Creativity

How The House of Artists at Gugging Became a Model for Psychiatric Reform

Amanda Stern

Sep 04, 2024

The Loneliness Cure: Dr. Ruth’s Practical Wisdom for Connection

The Secret of Connection from New York’s Loneliness Ambassador

Amanda Stern

Aug 28, 2024

How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

The Story of Brainspotting: David Grand’s Unexpected Discovery

Amanda Stern