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 another – through the lives of families, organizations and society itself. The words above were tattooed onto the shoulder of a young woman whose father was shot during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Their wrenching, volatile but also binding truth is the subject of this book. Organized during the pandemic, its stories illustrate the human dimensions of trauma, the conditions that lead to it, the ways it affects a person’s life and the lives of others, and how that fallout might be addressed.
With chapters on war trauma, jihad, clinical work after 9/11, chosen trauma and large group identity, cultural healing, and the legacy of trauma in the families of both victims and perpetrators, this book should be of great interest to all those interested in the work of the IDI.
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