It is the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world has been divided into new layers within its already deeply layered and disorganized soul. While some follow the news about new patients and their fate with complete trust, fearing for their fragile health and possible horrifying end, others are doubtful, distrustful and angry, seeking the right of freedom to breathe without a mask, freedom of movement and association, the basic freedom and right to choose illness and death versus the masked freedom of survival, burdened by new fears. This gap of mistrust and frustration results from being shut inside four walls, the loss of employment and the huge quantity of contradictory information, creating additional tension in the already fragile structure of the human psyche. The story of apartheid can also be told in this situation. And like so many times before in its history, when life becomes complicated until it is almost unbearable, when the earth quakes and the waters are in uproar, some (selected) examples of humanity come to the fore and become visible, that arouse both admiration and hope. The pandemic has helped one more, this time admirable division to become visible to the world - the division into those who, weakened by the virus, have become dependent on the care and concern of others, and those who fight ruthlessly to provide them with care and increase their chances for victory of health over illness, life over death. In this great family of praiseworthy helpers, psychotherapists have bravely taken their place, literally becoming organized overnight and re-organizing their work in person to work remotely. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
EMDR in the War Childhood Museum Sarajevo-To repair the damage caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-1995