The Truth As We Know It

Rebecca Dueben;

doi:10.5840/adc2021212110

The Truth As We Know It

After Dinner Conversation ◽

10.5840/adc2021212110 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (12) ◽

pp. 5-18

Author(s):

Rebecca Dueben ◽

Keyword(s):

Childhood Trauma ◽

Short Story ◽

Adult Relationships ◽

Being Bullied

How should adults help children who are being bullied? How is childhood trauma adapted into adult relationships? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Celia has been married six years to Jason, an ex-military man 20 years her senior. Celia’s child, Theo, is the result of Celia’s abusive father raping her as a teen. Theo is a short, overweight, awkward child who is teased at school. Jason continues to try to tease him and create experiences to “make a man out of him.” One day, when Jason and Theo go fishing, Theo is laughed at once too often and pushes Jason off the bridge, to his death. Now Celia is left to decide if she tells the truth about what happened, or tries to frame the death as a slip and fall accident.

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The short story and the bigger picture: Epiphanic analepses and violence in American literature

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice ◽

10.1386/fict_00002_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 79-87

Author(s):

Joanna Wilson-Scott

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

American Literature ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Short Story ◽

Short Fiction ◽

Separate Type

Self-sufficient and epiphanic, the analeptic short story is presented in this article as a separate type of narrative that exists within the larger novel. Distinct from the analepsis in general, such short stories can be read as autonomous in that, despite their brevity, they are self-contained and cohesive fictions, able to stand alone and still function as a whole. As this article demonstrates, analeptic short stories are revelatory and can serve to destabilize the larger narratives in which they are found. Through an analysis of violence and childhood trauma in novels such as A. M. Homes’s The End of Alice and its companion piece Appendix A, along with Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, this article offers a discussion on the ways in which analeptic short stories are pivotal elements of their wider context, and come to eclipse the larger narrative through revelation and a concise exploration of the characters and events within. Thus, it is argued that the analeptic short story is a specific type of short fiction, one that raises intriguing theoretical questions surrounding the American short story.

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Childhood Trauma

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190678784.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 189-199

Author(s):

Johnny S. Kim ◽

Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs ◽

Stacey Anne Williams

Keyword(s):

Childhood Trauma ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Art Gallery ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Adverse Childhood ◽

Negative Thoughts ◽

Being Bullied ◽

Solution Focused

This chapter examines how SFBT can be used with clients who have experienced childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences. This chapter will look at the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), what happens when incidents are compounded, the societal and economic impacts of childhood trauma, and bullying during childhood. We will explore how the SFBT model can be used to help children to cope with and reframe negative thoughts or experiences into positive and growth-oriented ones. The chapter also describes the application of SFBT using the solution-focused art gallery in the case of a young nine-year-old girl who is being bullied at school.

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The relationship between childhood trauma and theory of mind in schizophrenia

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.660 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (S1) ◽

pp. s259-s259 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Mrizak ◽

R. Trabelsi ◽

A. Arous ◽

A. Aissa ◽

H. Ben Ammar ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Mind ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Short Story ◽

Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽

History Of Childhood ◽

Neurocognitive Impairments ◽

History Of ◽

Physical Neglect ◽

Competing Interest ◽

The Relationship

IntroductionA history of childhood trauma is reportedly more prevalent in people suffering from psychosis than in the general population. Previous studies linked childhood trauma (CT) to neurocognitive impairments in schizophrenia (SCZ), but rarely to theory of mind (TOM) deficits.ObjectivesTo investigate the relationship between TOM deficits and CT in SCZ.MethodsFifty-eight outpatients with stable SCZ completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire retrospectively assessing five types of childhood trauma (emotional, physical and sexual abuse, and emotional and physical neglect). They also completed an intention-inferencing task, in which the ability to infer a character's intentions from information in a short story is assessed.ResultsOur results suggest a relationship between specific kinds of CT and TOM deficits. A history of childhood physical neglect was significantly correlated to a worse performance in the intention-inferencing task (P = 0,001). Patients with higher scores of CT denial also had less correct answers (P = 0,035) and more false answers (P = 0,013).ConclusionsOur results need replication but underline the necessity of investigating psychosocial mechanisms underlying the development of social cognition deficits, including deficits in TOM.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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A History of the Irish Short Story

10.1017/cbo9780511770418 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Heather Ingman

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

History Of

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Childhood trauma and dissociation in women with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1080/08039480903029728 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Adnan Ozcetin ◽

Hasan Belli ◽

Umit Ertem ◽

Talat Bahcebasi ◽

Ahmet Ataoglu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Childhood Trauma ◽

Conversion Disorder ◽

Type Conversion

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The Relationship of Interrogative Suggestibility to Memory and Attention

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803.20.2.79 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 79-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R.C. Howard ◽

A. Chaiwutikornwanich

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Short Story ◽

Oddball Paradigm ◽

Memory Processes ◽

Memory And Attention ◽

Irrelevant Distractors ◽

Alternative Hypotheses ◽

Visual Oddball Paradigm ◽

Interrogative Suggestibility ◽

Task Irrelevant

This study combined an individual differences approach to interrogative suggestibility (IS) with ERP recordings to examine two alternative hypotheses regarding the source of individual differences in IS: (1) differences in attention to task-relevant vis-à-vis task-irrelevant stimuli, and (2) differences in one or more memory processes, indexed by ERP old/new effects. Sixty-five female participants underwent an ERP recording during the 50 min interval between immediate and delayed recall of a short story. ERPs elicited by pictures that either related to the story (“old”), or did not relate to the story (“new”), were recorded using a three-stimulus visual oddball paradigm. ERP old/new effects were examined at selected scalp regions of interest at three post-stimulus intervals: early (250-350 ms), middle (350-700 ms), and late (700-1100 ms). In addition, attention-related ERP components (N1, P2, N2, and P3) evoked by story-relevant pictures, story-irrelevant pictures, and irrelevant distractors were measured from midline electrodes. Late (700-1100 ms) frontal ERP old/new differences reflected individual differences in IS, while early (250-350 ms) and middle latency (350-700 ms) ERP old/new differences distinguished good from poor performers in memory and oddball tasks, respectively. Differences in IS were not reflected in ERP indices of attention. Results supported an account of IS as reflecting individual differences in postretrieval memory processes.

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