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The Obama administration softened its antipot rhetoric, and then–attorney general Eric Holder issued the Cole memo, indicating that the Feds would not be storming the Rockies to stop legalization from going forward.
When Dr. Herman and Dr. van der Kolk met in the 1980s, she was treating the daughters of working-class Irish and Italian families, who were coming forward with stories of sexual abuse. He had been treating veterans who seemed trapped in the past, exploding with extreme rage at minor frustrations.
She was reserved; he was expansive. Dr. Herman likes to call herself “plain vanilla,” doggedly faithful to psychodynamic psychotherapy; Dr. van der Kolk is “flavor of the month,” always exploring new treatments, first Prozac, then body work and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
They had this in common: The patients they treated had been routinely dismissed by the psychiatric establishment as malingerers or hysterics. “We were in explicit agreement,” Dr. van der Kolk said. “We noted that people in academia were often very cruel to each other, and we made a pledge to have each other’s back.”
She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her. - The New York Times
Ellen Barry
During the 2010s, the body-positivity movement occurred in response to a decade of cruel, ritualized self-hatred. What had started with Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004 gained momentum as more scientific evidence emerged that diets simply did not work. In 2016, the plus-sized model Ashley Graham appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue, the same year that Mattel began selling Barbies with different body types and skin colors.
Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert
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