The IDI is pleased to announce publication of “We Don’t Speak Of Fear: Large-Group Identity, Societal Conflict and Collective Trauma,” the IDI’s first collective effort to share its work. Divided into sections on theory, application and methodology, We Don’t Speak Of Fear holds the idea that, while traumatic experiences may happen to an individual or … Read More
On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, IDI President Gerard Fromm offered remarks on psychological interventions at the Vilnius Conference on Overcoming Collective Trauma. An excerpt of those remarks follows: Preparing the Ground: Psychological Intervention in Societal Conflict Vilnius Conference on Overcoming Collective Trauma September 21, 2022 M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D. Esteemed ministers, colleagues, guests and conference … Read More
IDI Member John, Lord Alderdice offered the following remarks to Parliament on the passing of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II on September 10, 2022. Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Tributes, continued)Hansard Volume 824: debated on Saturday 10 September 2022Col 469Lord Alderdice (LD) My Lords, it is a truism of politics generally—and, no doubt, … Read More
Remembering the Era of Mikhail Gorbachev Vamık Volkan September 3, 2022 During the Cold War, Americans and Soviets were seeing each other through extremely prejudicial lenses. My first attendance at a meeting with Soviet delegates took place in Chautauqua, New York in June 1985. Two Soviet poets had come to Chautauqua: Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei … Read More
IDI President Jerry Fromm is pleased to announce the publication of his new book, Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society (Phoenix Publishing House, February 2022). “Bullets don’t just travel through skin and bone. They travel through time.” So begins this exploration of how trauma plays itself out – travels in one form or … Read More