As war continues to rage in Ukraine, with thousands of families and loved ones being separated by death and displacement, people around the Western world have responded to the heart-wrenching pain with a sense of affinity and even solidarity. Collective trauma, it seems, is a paradoxical human phenomenon, one without borders. The science of epigenetics …
Contributed chapter to The Psychology of Terrorism, Edited by Dr. Chris Stout Preager Publishers 2002 REPRINT: This contributed chapter first appeared in an edited book compiled by Dr. Chris Stout on The Psychology of Terrorism, published by Praeger Publishers in early 2002. It was written in the days and weeks immediately after 9-11 as a …
Psychological Concepts Of “The Other:” Embracing The Compass Of The Self Read More »
My father, Sol, was a Jew from Brooklyn who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps when he met my mother Kate, who had fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. They met at a synagogue gathering in Detroit and married shortly thereafter. Their first years of marriage were largely spent apart, my father being deployed …
Transgenerational Trauma Shaping History: The Power of Images Read More »
Many of us carry the fantasy that, in our next disagreement with someone from “the other side,” we will drive home our truth, we’ll be so sharp and will raise such powerful points, that the other will drop to his knees, tears in his eyes, and declare, “You’re so right, I am so wrong, how …
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 …
“Place is the first of all beings, since everything that exists is in a place and cannot exist without a place.” – Archytas, as cited by Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories. “To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.” – Carson McCullen, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Largely …