Most people assume their memories of growing up are fixed, much like a file stored in a cabinet, but new research suggests ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been described as a disorder of memory. It has become quite apparent that there are two types of memory in PTSD: the first being the involuntary intrusions of ...

“Trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated, and curated by the individual,” writes Katherine Rowland in The Guardian, in an article aptly titled “They’re selling ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — Award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch loves challenging audiences. “I’m drawn to stories people hesitate to tell,” she said in a recent interview with Bridge Street ...

What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the ...

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, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Survivor’s Memoir The One Coach Away Explores Trauma, Memory, And The Quiet Heroism That Endures After Disaster Author Tathagata Basu recounts a catastrophic event that changed his life forever, ...