Publications

 

​Talmon, A., Hasson, R., Hollander, Y., & Tsur, N. (2026). Fractured trust amidst war: The role of institutional betrayal and childhood maltreatment in shattered world assumptions and multilevel distress. Psychiatry Research, 116959.

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Talmon, A., Ashkenazi, G., Hollander, Y., & Tsur, N. (2025). The push and pull of closeness: Dyadic parent-offspring intimacy in the shadow of parental history of child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 169, 107648.

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Talmon, A., & Tsur, N. (2025). Intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic orientation to bodily signals following child maltreatment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(15-16), 3848-3875.

 

Tsur, N. (2025). Peritraumatic pain during traumatic experiences: Does it hurt to be abused? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16.

 

Tsur, N., Jacobson, M., Friedman-Hauser, G., Levin, I., Aviad, M., & Katz, C. (2025). “I hugged her tightly and told her I’m sorry, we’re going to die”: The experiences of Israeli mothers abducted with their children on October 7. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

 

Tsur, N., Katz, C., & Shemesh, N. (2025). Is child maltreatment painful? An exploration of peritraumatic pain in child maltreatment. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 18(2), 293-303.

 

Tsur, N., Klebanov, B., Talmon, A., & Katz, C. (2025). “He was not interested in pain”: The experience of pain in child sexual abuse as conveyed by adult survivors. Social Science & Medicine, 369, 117796.

 

Tsur, N., & Talmon, A. (2025). The link between childhood maltreatment and later pain perception: The role of memory processes and complex posttraumatic stress symptoms. The Journal of Pain, 29.

 

Bérubé, A., Turgeon, J., Tsur, N., & Talmon, A. (2024). The recognition and the initial reaction to children's signals after experiencing maltreatment during childhood. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 16(3), 621-632.

 

Katz, C., Jacobson, M., Aviad, M., Levin, I., Friedman-Hauser, G., & Tsur, N. (2024). “Hope dies last”: Children surviving captivity as conveyed in the interviews with the Israeli children who were held in Gaza. Children and Youth Services Review, 164, 107836.

 

Katz, C., Jacobson, M., Friedman-Hauser, G., Aviad, M., Levin, I., & Tsur, N. (2024). “No one wants you back, you will stay here forever”: Exploring the story of the Israeli children who were held in captivity by Hamas. Child Abuse & Neglect, 157, 106907.

 

Talmon, A., Ditzer, J., Talmon, A., & Tsur, N. (2024). Maltreatment in daycare settings: A review of empirical studies in the field. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(1), 512-525.

 

Talmon, A., Shilo, G., & Tsur, N. (2024). Intergenerational associations between childhood maltreatment, post‐traumatic stress symptoms, and chronic pain in young adult offspring and their parents. Stress and Health, 40(5), e3441.

 

Tsur, N. (2024). The link between trauma and chronic pain: Exploring the role of pain flashbacks in chronic pain following interpersonal trauma. The Journal of Pain, 25(4), 6.

 

Tsur, N., Talmon, A., & Shemesh, N. (2024). Peritraumatic pain in child maltreatment: A systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(3), 1725-1736.

 

Klebanov, B., Tsur, N., & Katz, C. (2023). "Many bad things had been happening to me": Children's perceptions and experiences of polyvictimization in the context of child physical abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 145, 106429.

 

Ronen, T., Berger, R., Rahav, G., Agbaria, Q., Tsur, N., & Savaya, R. (2023). Flourishing in Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli adolescents: The role of positive/negative affect and family/peer support or undermining. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 40(1), 143-157.

 

Talmon, A., & Tsur, N. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and eating disorder behaviors: Shedding light on the mother-daughter dyad and grandmother-mother-daughter triad. European Psychiatry, 66(S1), S521-S522.

 

Tsur, N. (2023). Pain flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 145, 106765.

 

Tsur, N. (2023). Pain flashbacks: Exploring the role of intrusive pain symptoms for post-traumatic chronic pain. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14.

 

Tsur, N. (2023). Posttraumatic orientation to bodily signals: A unified concept portraying the interpretation of bodily signals following trauma. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14.

 

Tsur, N., & Katz, C. (2023). Pain flashbacks: The role of intrusive pain symptoms in posttraumatic chronic pain. European Psychiatry, 66(S1), S112.

 

Tsur, N., Najjar, A. A., & Katz, C. (2023). “When I was a child, the doctor advised me to have sex more gently”: The perceptions and experiences with the healthcare system as conveyed by adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Social Science & Medicine, 320, 115685.

 

Tsur, N., Noyman-Veksler, G., Elbaz, I., Weisman, L., Brill, S., Shalev, H., ... (2023). The personification of chronic pain: An examination using the ben-Gurion University illness personification scale (BGU-IPS). Psychiatry, 86(2), 137-156.

 

Tsur, N., & Solomon, Z. (2023). Posttraumatic orientation to bodily signals: The engraving of trauma in bodily perceptions. European Psychiatry, 66(S1), S475-S476.

 

​Tsur, N., & Talmon, A. (2023). Post-traumatic orientation to bodily signals: A systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(1), 174-188.

 

Tsur, N. (2022). Chronic pain personification following child abuse: The imprinted experience of child abuse in later chronic pain. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(5-6), NP2516-NP2537.

 

​Tsur, N., & Katz, C. (2022). “And then Cinderella was lying in my bed”: Dissociation displays in forensic interviews with children following intrafamilial child sexual abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(17-18), NP15336-NP15358.

 

Tsur, N., Katz, C., & Klebanov, B. (2022). Peritraumatic pain in child sexual abuse: Children’s descriptions of pain as conveyed in their testimonies following child sexual abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(7-8), NP4393-NP4414.

 

Tsur, N., Najjar, A. A., & Katz, C. (2022). “Explode into small pieces”: Suicidal ideation among child sexual abuse survivors. Child Abuse & Neglect, 131, 105780.

 

Crompton, L., Plotkin Amrami, G., Tsur, N., & Solomon, Z. (2021). Tattoos in the wake of trauma: Transforming personal stories of suffering into public stories of coping. Deviant Behavior, 42(10), 1242-1255.

 

Katz, C., Tsur, N., Nicolet, R., Carmel, N., & Klebanov, B. (2021). Children’s responses to maltreatment: Key conclusions from a systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22(5), 1155-1168.

 

Katz, C., Tsur, N., Talmon, A., & Nicolet, R. (2021). Beyond fight, flight, and freeze: Towards a new conceptualization of peritraumatic responses to child sexual abuse based on retrospective accounts of adult survivors. Child Abuse & Neglect, 112, 104905.

 

Talmon, A., & Tsur, N. (2021). Intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and eating disorder behaviors: Shedding light on the mother-daughter dyad and grandmother-mother-daughter triad. Children and Youth Services Review, 129, 106209.

 

Tsur, N., Bachem, R., Zhou, X., Levin, Y., Abu-Raiya, H., & Maercker, A. (2021). Cross-cultural investigation of COVID-19 related acute stress: A network analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 143, 309-316.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Haller, C. S., Bercovitz, K., & Langer, E. J. (2021). The effect of mindful attention training for pain modulation capacity: Exploring the mindfulness–pain link. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(4), 896-909.

 

Tsur, N., & Haller, C. S. (2021). Self-rated health among patients with severe traumatic brain injury and their close relatives: The role of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, 83(5), 449-456.

 

Tsur, N., Katz, C., & Klebanov, B. (2021). “I don’t have fur to protect me”: Children’s experience of pain as communicated in forensic interviews following parental physical abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105420.

 

Tsur, N., Katz, C., & Talmon, A. (2021). The shielding effect of not responding: Peritraumatic responses to child abuse and their links to posttraumatic symptomatology. Child Abuse & Neglect, 121, 105224.

 

Bachem, R., Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Abu-Raiya, H., & Maercker, A. (2020). Negative affect, fatalism, and perceived institutional betrayal in times of the coronavirus pandemic: A cross-cultural investigation of control beliefs. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 589914.

 

Ein-Dor, T., Hirschberger, G., Tsur, N., Mikulincer, M., Bazak, S. B., & Solomon, Z. (2020). The link between attachment orientations and cellular aging among former prisoners of war. Attachment & Human Development, 22(3), 352-366.

 

Gaertner, L. H. C., Tsur, N., & Haller, C. S. (2020). Patients’ recovery after severe TBI is associated with their close relatives’ interpersonal functioning: A 12-months prospective cohort study. Brain Injury, 34(6), 766-774.

 

Katz, C., Tsur, N., Nicolet, R., Klebanov, B., & Carmel, N. (2020). No way to run or hide: Children’s perceptions of their responses during intrafamilial child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106, 104541.

 

Lahav, Y., Solomon, Z., Siegel, A., Tsur, N., & Defrin, R. (2020). Punishing the self: Post-traumatic guilt mediates the link between trauma and deficient pain modulation. The Journal of Pain, 21(3-4), 364-374.

 

Tsur, N. (2020). Intergenerational transmission of orientation to bodily signals: The transgenerational implications of trauma within the mother-daughter dyad. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(6), A199-A200.

 

Tsur, N. (2020). “My own flesh and blood”: The implications of child maltreatment for the orientation towards the body among dyads of mothers and daughters. Child Abuse & Neglect, 104, 104469.

 

Tsur, N., & Abu-Raiya, H. (2020). COVID-19-related fear and stress among individuals who experienced child abuse: The mediating effect of complex posttraumatic stress disorder. Child Abuse & Neglect, 110, 104694.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Shahar, G., & Solomon, Z. (2020). Dysfunctional pain perception and modulation among torture survivors: The role of pain personification. Journal of Affective Disorders, 265, 10-17.

 

Tsur, N., & Haller, C. S. (2020). Physical and mental health and functioning among traumatic brain injury close relatives: The role of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Family Process, 59(2), 666-680.

 

Penix, E. A., Kim, P. Y., Wilk, J. E., & Adler, A. B. (2019). Secondary traumatic stress in deployed healthcare staff. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11(1), 1.

 

Solomon, Z., Talmon, A., Ginzburg, K., & Tsur, N. (2019). The long-term imprints of traumatic experiences on the body: Physical, somatic and psychological expressions. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Levin, Y., Itzhaky, L., & Solomon, Z. (2019). Pain perception and modulation in ex-POWs who underwent torture: The role of subjective and objective suffering. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11(8), 820.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., & Shahar, G. (2019). Trauma, PTSD and dysfunctional pain modulation: The role of traumatized pain personification. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., & Shahar, G. (2019). Chronic pain personification and dysfunctional pain modulation among torture survivors: Potential explanations for the trauma-pain link. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 121, 136-137.

 

Tsur, N., & Haller, C. (2019). Traumatic brain injury and its effect on mental and physical health of close relatives: The role of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 121, 142-143.

 

Tsur, N., Stein, J. Y., Levin, Y., Siegel, A., & Solomon, Z. (2019). Loneliness and subjective physical health among war veterans: Long term reciprocal effects. Social Science & Medicine, 234, 112373.

 

Ginzburg, K., Biran, I., Aryeh, I. G., Tsur, N., & Defrin, R. (2018). Pain perception and body awareness among individuals with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(5), 618-635.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Lahav, Y., & Solomon, Z. (2018). The traumatized body: Long-term PTSD and its implications for the orientation towards bodily signals. Psychiatry Research, 261, 281-289.

 

Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Abumock, H., & Solomon, Z. (2018). One ‘knows’: Self-rated health and telomere length among ex-prisoners of war. Psychology & Health, 33(12), 1503-1518.

 

Solomon, Z., Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Uziel, O., Lahav, M., & Ohry, A. (2017). The implications of war captivity and long-term psychopathology trajectories for telomere length. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 122-128.

 

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., & Ginzburg, K. (2017). Posttraumatic stress disorder, orientation to pain, and pain perception in ex-prisoners of war who underwent torture. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, 79(6), 655-663.

 

Tsur, N., Shahar, G., Defrin, R., Lahav, Y., & Ginzburg, K. (2017). Torturing personification of chronic pain among torture survivors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 99, 155-161.

 

Tsur, N., Berkovitz, N., & Ginzburg, K. (2016). Body awareness, emotional clarity, and authentic behavior: The moderating role of mindfulness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(4), 1451-1472.

 

Ginzburg, K., Tsur, N., Karmin, C., Speizman, T., Tourgeman, R., & Defrin, R. (2015). Body awareness and pain habituation: The role of orientation towards somatic signals. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 38(6), 876-885.

 

Ginzburg, K., Tsur, N., Barak-Nahum, A., & Defrin, R. (2014). Body awareness: Differentiating between sensitivity to and monitoring of bodily signals. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37(3), 564-575.

 

Tsur, N. T., Ginzburg, K., & Defrin, R. (2014). The adaptivity of monitoring and sensitivity to bodily signals: The role of mindfulness and catastrophizing. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21, S25.

 

Ginzburg, K., Tsur, N., & Defrin, R. (2013). Alexithymia and anxiety: The mediating role of monitoring of somatic sensations and catastrophizing. Psychology & Health, 28, 23-23.

 

Tsur, N., Ginzburg, K., & Defrin, R. (2013). Focusing attention to somatic signals and anxiety: A test of the mediating role of catastrophizing and the moderating role of mindfulness. Psychosomatic Medicine, 75(3), A122-A123.

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