Trigger” wasn’t meant for everyday discomfort. Learn why its misuse matters and how better language supports healing and ...

Evolution away from shell-shock The next wave of the study of trauma came when the Second World War saw another influx of soldiers dealing with similar symptoms. It was Abram Kardiner, a clinician ...

Shell shock is a term originally coined in 1915 by Charles Myers to describe soldiers who were involuntarily shivering, crying, fearful, and had constant intrusions of memory. It is not a term used in ...

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...

The University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies has partnered with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center to launch the nation’s first graduate ...

The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center hosted its 34th annual Shock Trauma Heroes Celebration Oct. 26, honoring more than 80 trauma professionals and first ...

English physician Charles Myers, who wrote the first paper on “shell-shock” in 1915, theorized that these symptoms actually did stem from a physical injury. He posited that repetitive exposure to ...