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...violence. The other myth is that somehow, this is a by-product of bad parenting. The research shows is that mental illness has a genetic component. So it's more a DNA thing than a parenting thing, although there are environmental factors and triggers, and stress triggers and trauma triggers and drug triggers as well...
...when the world went dark. About 85,000 people who lived in Hiroshima and its environs on Aug. 6, 1945, are still alive. For many, that morning was the beginning of a lifetime of struggle--to overcome not only the physical ailments associated with radiation but also the psychic trauma caused by years of rejection from their own society, which shunned the survivors out of fear they could contaminate others. French photographer Gerard Rancinan traveled to Hiroshima this year to photograph the hibakusha and record their stories. Seventy agreed to pose, some holding childhood photos or pictures of family members...
...found, at least in the preliminary analysis, that those who said they experienced symptoms of PTSD tended to have higher rates of certain diseases,” Evans said, emphasizing that the study’s conclusions about the effects of trauma are not yet final...
...scholars working on post-1945 art today, Buchloh is perhaps the only one for whom the question, raised by Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central,” Yve-Alain Bois, the former chair of the history of art and architecture department, wrote in a note to Franklin D. Rosenblatt...
...city, were the stock of dozens of painters like Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jean Franois Millet. Homer's own America had its anxieties too--immense ones. Nothing in its cultural history is more striking than the virtual absence of any mention of the central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children...