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Author name: Eduardo Duran, PhD

Eduardo Duran, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, healer, teacher, storyteller, and Vietnam Veteran who started his academic training after being discharged from the US Navy Born in northern New Mexico, Duran worked in the fields as a migrant farm worker in California and at age 17 enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served for 6 years on board submarines and other vessels during the Vietnam war. During this time he became interested in psychology and began working for the Navy as an engineering psychologist. As he progressed through a master’s degree Duran found that his spirit was no longer compatible working for defense and military systems. Once he was discharged his path took a turn after his last visit with his grandfather, changing career trajectory to become a clinical psychologist and begin the journey into the clinical realm of psychology and healing. Duran was admitted to a doctoral program and early into the course work he was hired to develop a mental health program for a tribal consortium. The initial work on this project let him know that the Western paradigm was falling short of what the Native community required in order to heal from what later became known as historical trauma. He attained his PhD degree and has since worked in Indigenous communities most of his professional life, with much of his clinical and research work concentrated on working with the legacy of historical trauma that is relevant for most people. His groundbreaking work with Native Peoples is informed by traditional teachings from Native elders as he creates a hybrid model in his clinical practice to address the deeper issues resulting from soul wounding, answering a deep call for healing and providing guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. Duran has served as a professor of psychology in several graduate settings and continues to teach and lecture in community settings all over the world sharing his insights into "soul wounding." He is author of Native American Post Colonial Psychology, Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native People and Buddha in Redface. -- Email: eduran16@protonmail.com / Web: https://soulhealing16.com/eduardo-duran

Healing Trauma Across Fourteen Generations

Professional and Philosophical Perspectives / By Eduardo Duran, PhD

Everything we do will affect seven generations is a saying known and understood by many Indigenous people of the world. The understanding of the impact on seven generations includes the ancestors as well as the unborn ones. Therefore, the act of writing these words are already having an impact on at least fourteen generations. This …

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