Healing a Violent World: Healing Invisible Wounds

War: a Mental State - Interview on ABCNews

Featured on the July 29, 2007 ABC World News segment about Iraqi refugees. Here I discuss the mental and social ramifications of Iraqi citizens' life in a war zone.

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(The video is hosted on ABCNews.com and includes advertisements before and after the interview segment)

"Healing Invisible Wounds" Book Reading, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA 2/2/07

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View video of my reading from the book at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA. I discuss human resilience and the potential for psychological self-healing - lessons learned in my 25 years of working with refugee populations and torture survivors. I describe the connections between humiliation, depression, and violence; and the work that remains to be done by acknowledging and supporting the relationship between personal healing, social healing, and social justice.

On William James and Seeing Clearly: Video 2 from 2/2/7 Reading at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

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Click on the image to view video 2 from the Harvard Book Store reading. Here I talk about "i momenti" - moments of revelation, seeing clearly, William James, spirituality and healing. Also featured is my friend, storyteller Brother Blue.