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effects of trauma

ROOM How Does Therapy Find Words For Wordless Trauma?

ROOM
How Does Therapy Find Words
For Wordless Trauma?

February 18, 2016 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Emma Donoghue’s film, ROOM, takes us directly into the emotional experience of trauma. As the film opens, we hear a little boy’s voice introducing us to a girl named Ma. Kidnapped, stolen from her life, and kept in ROOM for seven years, Ma lives in a world as incomprehensible as Alice’s …

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How Does Therapy Find Words
For Wordless Trauma?
Ashley Judd 7 Ways To Overcome Shame After Sexual Harassment

ASHLEY JUDD
7 Ways To Overcome Shame
After Sexual Harassment

October 8, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Ashley Judd is speaking out. Good, because sexual harassment is damaging. You feel powerless. End up with a lot of unwarranted shame. You even blame yourself. But, when someone has power over you, of one kind or another, it’s hard to say, “No” – to report it, or to stand up for yourself. You might …

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7 Ways To Overcome Shame
After Sexual Harassment
An Emmy for Jon Hamm? Yes! For Playing A Traumatized Man

EMMY FOR JON HAMM?
Yes! For Portraying
A Traumatized Man

August 14, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Jon Hamm deserves an Emmy for Don Draper. I agree with Variety’s Debra Birnbaum about that. But, I find it unfortunate that voters would only now consider awarding him that Emmy. As Birnbaum wrote, Jon Hamm likely hasn’t won in the past since “Don Draper … was a cheating husband, a neglectful father, an unapologetic …

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Yes! For Portraying
A Traumatized Man

Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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