Since Patrick’s essay runs to almost 8,000 words, we agreed to publish it in three parts over the next few days (and will also create a shareable link to the entire version for ease of reference). It was stunning to me to recognise how much of the trauma of war was still living in my body.” “However, not a word about racism left my mouth during the initial five-day training in Israel, nor over the next year of Zoom meetings, because the work activated my war trauma from Vietnam. “I had sought out Hübl’s work to better understand how I carried the collective trauma of racism as a white liberal activist, so I could better support myself and other white people to face this trauma, and stop being part of the problem. Reading the essay for the first time, and again during editing, I was moved to tears. I have never read such an intimate and precise account of how the collective trauma of war lives in societies, the impact on individuals, and how the kind of group process work that we’re both practicing can help to salve these deepest of wounds. I immediately recognised it as a document of profound significance for the collective healing movement. In July, Patrick and I met on Zoom, and he shared an essay he’d written, which he’d hoped to publish in a psychotherapy magazine - but had yet to place. Patrick’s discovery of Thomas’ collective trauma work six years ago was a turning point on his lifelong quest to integrate his experiences, and support others. Haunted by what he’d seen and done, he spent years in therapy, and ultimately became a psychologist himself. I first heard of Patrick Dougherty when reading a brief account of his experiences in Thomas Hübl’s book Healing Collective Trauma : A Process for Integrating our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds.Īs a young man, Patrick had served as a U.S.
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