I am the child of Holocaust Survivors. My Mother was in work camps then was being marched to death camps. The first was filled so they continued their march to Bergen Belson where they were told the next day the "Political Prisoners" being supervised by the Red Cross were being put on a train and all the Jews remaining would be murdered. If she and her three friends could get to the other part of the camp, the people there would rescue them. And they did, got on the train the next morning. When the Nazis removed their uniforms because the Allied Soldiers were nearby, the train stopped in the forest and they found their way back to Poland.
I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist, am currently working with Chronic Pain Patients, many of whom were victims of Child Abuse.
I became a Psychologist to help my Mother but she wasn't interested. I have continued successfully working with people who don't always recognize the connection between their trauma and their current pain, but I do. I help people recognize that the consequences of their trauma doesn't have to continue to injure them any more. It will never go away, but it can be diminished in it's power and influence.
My Mother never understood exactly what Psychology and Psychologist did to help people, but she did understand that I was helping people, she was very proud, and that was all I needed.
I am the child of Holocaust Survivors. My Mother was in work camps then was being marched to death camps. The first was filled so they continued their march to Bergen Belson where they were told the next day the "Political Prisoners" being supervised by the Red Cross were being put on a train and all the Jews remaining would be murdered. If she and her three friends could get to the other part of the camp, the people there would rescue them. And they did, got on the train the next morning. When the Nazis removed their uniforms because the Allied Soldiers were nearby, the train stopped in the forest and they found their way back to Poland.
I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist, am currently working with Chronic Pain Patients, many of whom were victims of Child Abuse.
I became a Psychologist to help my Mother but she wasn't interested. I have continued successfully working with people who don't always recognize the connection between their trauma and their current pain, but I do. I help people recognize that the consequences of their trauma doesn't have to continue to injure them any more. It will never go away, but it can be diminished in it's power and influence.
My Mother never understood exactly what Psychology and Psychologist did to help people, but she did understand that I was helping people, she was very proud, and that was all I needed.