Battling PTSD, One Play at a Time
Veterans Dealing with Suicide, PTSD and TBI Represented in Play “Re-Entry” - ABC News)
The Thaumaturgy Department
thaumaturg
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
veteran barred from CCBC campus for frank words on killing
Sun article, with video and additional material, on a local angle of a much larger narrative, whether it be campuses or the workplace.
Follow-up pieces, including a letter from an older vet, appear here and here.
One of the many and varied volumes available at the online bookstore of Marine Parents online, a few of which we’re going to feature here. We’ve also noted other resources—books, articles, websites, merely a scratching of the surface of a vast array available in many media—on our delicious thread. Just follow the Reentry tag. If anyone following or stopping by would like to recommend other works, drop a note and we’ll include them, willingly.
That said, one aside: for anyone who doesn’t know the play ReEntry (yet!), but maybe is considering seeing it—and you should, if you’re anywhere nearby—don’t get the impression from some of these materials that it’s all about PTSD, TBI, and war damage. These come up in the conversation that makes up the play, because it’s based directly on interviews with a range of Marines, some of whom are wounded in various ways; but by no means does the topic dominate the play. These are facets of the larger inquiry into “reentry” covered in the show, from many perspectives.
Waking the Tiger | Trauma Therapy
As recommended by ReEntry cast member (and USMC vet) Joe Harrell, the Peter Levine book Waking the Tiger—which discusses “Nature’s Lessons in Healing Trauma.”
