Trauma

Description

Trauma is a collection of over thirty essays about art and mental health. The essays, which range from the personal to the political and from the raw to the reflective, explore topics such as grief, insomnia, anxiety, abusive relationships, addiction to porn and denialism, whilst also offering ways to deal with trauma, such as meditation, writing and the redemptive value of reading. Emma Jane Unsworth explores post-natal depression, James Miller philosophises about the impact of Trump and the current political climate on our collective mental health; David Lynch examines the healing benefits of Transcendental Meditation; Saskia Vogel writes about the legacy of emotional abuse from a romantic partner; Rhiannon L Cosslett explores PTSD and nightmares; Marina Benjamin explores losing language and ventriloquising others, and Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the highs and lows of drug addiction.