Word: traumas
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...remember, just after the war, when some men needed a domestic outlet for the martial skills they had learned overseas. That explains some of the violence in film noir, and the flashback format which, even if it didn't specifically refer to a wartime trauma, suggested that men were prisoners of what they had seen and endured...
...maintains the strongest belief that she is innocent, that insanity led her to kill. "Andrea is a victim here. She has lived in a different world for weeks and weeks, months and months," Rusty says. "She is waking up, and this is her life now. Think of the trauma she has been through. What a cruel thing to do. Where's the compassion...
Take, for example, Yahaya Sekagya. Like Okello, his history was shaped by medical trauma. As a teenager he was consigned to a mental hospital for visions he says were calling him to traditional medicine. "It was misdiagnosed and misunderstood by Western medicine," says Sekagya, 43. Although he ended up going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south...
...often forgotten: the children whose parents have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Those kids are gaining a voice--and a break--through Operation Purple, a privately funded program of 26 sleep-away camps in 22 states where art therapy, open discussion and old-fashioned summer fun ease the trauma of having a soldier parent deployed. Kuuipo Ordway, who oversees behavioral health at the camps--free for 8-to-18-year-olds who have a parent deployed--says they need outlets. "They're angry and scared," she says, but "proud of their parents...
...then a second-year resident in general surgery on trauma call. The radio said they were coming from Roxbury with a gunshot wound to the groin. Four Boston policemen "accompanied" my patient through the electric doors. He had been resisting arrest, even tried to run down a cop with his car. That probably explained why one of the cops had my patient's face mashed down into the black vinyl foam pad that covered the gurney, in the process asphyxiating him. The other two were taking turns yanking his arms up behind his back and punching his kidneys. The fourth...