Traumatic Life Events
This series of commentaries describes the effects of traumatic life events—accidents, war, plague, Spanish Flu, tidal waves, involuntary institutional placement, abandonment at sea, and presidential assassination.
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Bus accident with disability
July 2003
The Nightmare
Nightmares as traumatic life experiences
May 2004
The Family (Squatting Couple)
Devastation and death from Spanish Flu
September 2004
Gassed
Mustard gas attack in war
January 2005
The Plague of Ashdod
Biblical account of plague
March 2006
Self-Portrait After Spanish Flu
Surviving the Spanish Flu and mental disorder aftermath
April 2006
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken at Jaffa
The effect of plague during wartime
May 2006
Raft of the Medusa
Starvation and cannibalism among survivors of a shipwreck
June 2006
Under the Wave off Kanagawa
Tidal wave near Mt Fuji
January 2008
The Mothers (VI From Seven Woodcuts to War)
Mother's response to the loss of her son in WWI
November 2008
Miranda—The Tempest
Crisis in settling Jamestown Colony as the basis for Shakespeare's play
January 2010
Picasso's Guernica
Condemnation of total war
September 2010
Weeping Woman
Portrait of Dora Maar in abject despair
January 2012
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Heroic portrait of George Washington in wartime
February 2012
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom to Lead
Resistence to military dictatorship
July 2012
An Office or Your Life
Assassination of President Garfield
November 2012
Parsifal
Effort by the next generation to come to terms with the sins of war in Germany
July 2013
Departure
Escape from wartime tragedy
September 2013
In the Realms of the Unreal
Traumatizing institutional placement at an early age
November 2013