Stories by Kali Tal

Kali Tal is Scientific Editor for the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her book, Worlds of Hurt, is the seminal text on literatures of trauma, and established that across traumas, survivors have similar drives and use similar strategies to communicate their experiences. Since the 1980s, Tal has participated in and followed the debates within trauma studies, and worked with survivors, including Vietnam veterans, Holocaust, and rape/sexual abuse survivors. She is now writing a book that describes the limits of contemporary PTSD studies, and charts a course for the future of the field. Follow Kali Tal on Twitter @Ktal4