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The pictures on this site are the work of the artists and photographers credited below. All rights remain with them.

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  • Men browsing books in the bomb-damaged library of Holland House, London, 1940 – photograph by Harrison, Fox PhotosHolland House library, Kensington, London, after the air raid of 27 September 1940. Photograph by Harrison for Fox Photos, 23 October 1940 (original print: Historic England Archive, BB83/04456). Public domain. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
  • Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953): a screaming pope enclosed by yellow linesFrancis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953. Oil on canvas. Des Moines Art Center, Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1980.1. © The Estate of Francis Bacon / DACS London 2026. All rights reserved.
  • Yayoi Kusama, The World of Insect (1953): pink, red and violet ink, gouache and pastel on paperYayoi Kusama, The World of Insect, 1953. Ink, gouache and pastel on paper. © YAYOI KUSAMA All rights reserved.
  • Yoshitaka Amano, illustration for The Sandman: The Dream Hunters – a pale woman wrapped in a vast red and violet robeYoshitaka Amano, illustration from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman (DC Comics / Vertigo, 1999). © 1999 DC Comics. All rights reserved.
  • Phyllis Galembo photograph: a pilgrim standing under the Saut-d'Eau (Sodo) waterfall in HaitiPhyllis Galembo, pilgrim at the Sodo (Saut-d'Eau) waterfall, Haiti, from the series Sodo, Haiti, 1997–2001. © Phyllis Galembo.
  • Henri Matisse, Dance (1910): five red figures dancing hand in hand in a circle on a green hill under a blue skyHenri Matisse, Dance (II) (La Danse), 1909–1910. Oil on canvas, 260 × 391 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Public domain. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
  • Kasia Wozniak, Iconography series: wet-plate collodion portrait of a young man composed of four platesKasia Wozniak, from the series Iconography, c. 2013–2014, wet-plate collodion. © Kasia Wozniak.
  • Jack Picone, Monks in Repose (2006): young novice monks resting on their horses in a river, ThailandJack Picone, Monks In Repose, Golden Horse Monastery, Thailand, 2006. © Jack Picone.
  • Eiko & Koma dancing entwined, covered in white paste and rags – photograph by Anne NordmannEiko & Koma, probably in Trilogy (1979–81). Photo: Anne Nordmann. Print: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Arts du spectacle. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

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  • Baptiste André, trauma therapist in Brussels and online, in his introduction videoIntroduction video and its cover picture: Baptiste André.
  • Philippe de Poulpiquet photograph: a rebel fighter kicks a football beside the burning Bab al-Aziziya compound, Tripoli, 2011Philippe de Poulpiquet, a rebel fighter kicks a football near the burning Bab al-Aziziya compound, Tripoli, Libya, 23 August 2011 (converted to black and white). © Philippe de Poulpiquet / MaxPPP.
  • Workers and archaeologists around the newly unearthed statue of Antinous at Delphi, 13 July 1894Discovery of the statue of Antinous, Delphi, 13 July 1894, during the excavations of the École française d'Athènes. Photographer unknown (EFA Archives, glass plate PV_C304). Public domain. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
  • Highland Spring by Ryan Bliss: a lone tree above a deep sunlit mountain valley, in black and whiteHighland Spring © Ryan Bliss / Digital Blasphemy, 2010. Black-and-white version.

Methodology

  • Lucien Clergue photograph: Jean Cocteau walks past the horse-man on the set of Le Testament d'Orphée, 1959Lucien Clergue, Jean Cocteau croise l'homme-cheval (Jean Cocteau passes the horse-man), on the set of Le Testament d'Orphée, Les Baux-de-Provence, 1959. © Atelier Lucien Clergue.
  • Structural dissociation diagram: a normal-life part and a traumatized part made of fight, flight, freeze, submit and cry-for-help partsDiagram from Janina Fisher, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (PESI Publishing, 2021), © 2021 Janina Fisher, based on the structural dissociation model of Onno van der Hart, Ellert Nijenhuis and Kathy Steele, The Haunted Self (W. W. Norton, 2006).
  • Victor Bockris photograph: William S. Burroughs holding a large knife in his New York apartment, c. 1979William S. Burroughs in "The Bunker", New York, c. 1979. Photo: Victor Bockris / Corbis via Getty Images.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait (1980): the artist wearing make-up and a fur collarRobert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1980. ARTIST ROOMS, Tate and National Galleries of Scotland (AL00361). © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
  • Somatic Experiencing chart: after a traumatic event the nervous system can stay stuck on (anxiety, panic) or stuck off (depression, numbness) instead of returning to its normal range"Symptoms of Un-Discharged Traumatic Stress" © 2014 Foundation for Human Enrichment / Somatic Experiencing® International (traumahealing.org). All rights reserved.
  • Triangle of mindfulness diagram: awareness, attention and acceptance around the word mindfulnessDiagram adapted from "The Triangle of Mindfulness", Dr Kathirasan K, Centre for Mindfulness Singapore, 2021.
  • Video "4-Minute Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Exercise with David Treleaven" © Mindfulness Exercises, embedded from YouTube. YouTube
  • Video "Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective" © The Trauma Foundation, embedded from YouTube. YouTube

Contact

  • Dominique Issermann, Susan Hauser pour Parco (1985): a woman in a white triangular gown standing in the seaDominique Issermann, Susan Hauser pour Parco, Trouville, 1985. © Dominique Issermann.
  • Haitian dancer Pierre Desrameaux dancing with a woman in white, 1950s, from Lavinia Williams' book Haiti-DancePierre Desrameaux dancing, Haiti, 1950s. Photograph from Lavinia Williams Yarborough, Haiti-Dance (Frankfurt am Main: Brönners Druckerei, 1959). Photographer unknown.
  • Mário Macilau, Telton Simbine (2), Faith series (2017): a man's bare back, his head covered by a burlap sackMário Macilau, Telton Simbine (2), from the series Faith, 2017. © Mário Macilau. Courtesy of the artist and Ed Cross, London.
  • Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962. © The Estate of Diane Arbus.
  • Morgan Otagburuagu, Being Black and Colourful I (2020): a woman covered in orange petals against a blue backgroundMorgan Otagburuagu, Being Black and Colourful I, 2020. © Morgan Otagburuagu. Courtesy of the artist and Doyle Wham.

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