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Earlier this month, psychiatrist Basel Van Der Kolk, a pioneer in Trauma Research, expressed displeasure as he led a workshop on trauma in Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, a retreat center in Rhinbeck, NY, comparing “Nazis” to a Retreat Center, Israel’s “Nazis” and choosing “Tribes” to choose “Nazis” Let’s dislike
Weeks later, Fallout is still taking regeneration in Jewish, Health Services and Shock Commits, apologizing to participants for “unfair and antisementary comments” of Van Der Kolk with Omega Institute and van der Kolk shared me with email, which he sent for his comments after starting his comments after starting his comments, now The retreat center is threatening.
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This story will be another unknown saga of an academic fall from grace, but it is too much. This is a story of caution how the most famous sounds in psychology and healing fields can be ideologically captured and deepening blind spots that they leave Jewish trauma invisible in moments of invisible, abuse or greatest vulnerability.
Dr. Basel Van Der Kolk speaks at a press conference with supporters of the “yes on 4” campaign in front of Massachusetts State House. (Photo by John Talumki/Boston Globe Getty Image) (John Talumki/The Boston Globe)
New York Times’s best -selling 2014 book, “The Body Kepps the Score”, is known globally for writing, and for his leading PTSD research with psychiatrist Judith Harman, van der Kolk has long been considered as Authority on Trauma Studies, which is a child’s misuse and domestic violence. Makes our understanding wider. I personally have known her for decades, taught psychology students at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles, where I was a professor, and hosted her in Los Angeles, where she drafted parts of her bestseling book on her dining room table.
Van Der Kolk should know how to overcome the trauma to the Jews that takes the Jews. He grew up in the Naz-Kabje Netherlands, where the Dutch establishment quickly complied with Nazi orders, which sent 75% of the Dutch Jews to his death, which is all the highest in Western Europe.
In early August, when van der Kolk and his wife, Lisia Sky, led a workshop at the Omega Institute on “Trauma, Memory and the Restoration of Self”.
According to August 7, 7 social media posts which went viral, “Shock by trauma specialist,” A trauma recovery coach and participant in the workshop Elisa Portnoy said that Van der Kolk compared Israeli to “Nazis”, “Said,” What is Israel doing in Gaza, what Nazis have done. ,
The irony is that in an op-ed published last year TodayVan Der Kolk and psychologist Jessica Stern wrote that “both sides called the other ‘Nazis”, “given that it was” inhuman language “.
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Portnoy said that van der coal also disliked the conservative Jews and said that he gave priority to “his tribe on truth”. ” [than to] Tell the truth about what is going on in the community. ,
By August 13, the post went viral, Enhanced By an Instagram account, physicians against antisementism, which apologized by van der Kolk, admitted that the Israeli’s Nazis compared “serious, aggressive, incorrect and completely unnecessary comments.”
The omega institute Published an apology, Saying that this van will not invite Der Kolk to teach any of its workshops due to “unfair and antisementary comments”.
A few days ago, I wrote the van der Kolk, and I was disappointed to know that his feeling of apology was short -lived. He shared an email to his wife, Sky, and he sent a note to an Omega Institute official: “Feel free to share.”
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In a series of three emails, the first discovered here, Sky sent senior director of programming at the Omega Institute, Karen Hornfor -Inter, an email on August 15, raising the issue with the apology of the Omega Institute, called it “condemnation”.
She closed with a danger: “This is the same for the complaint, and if this statement has not been corrected then we have to resort to legal action.”
After minutes, van der Kolk replied, “Yes, really. It’s condemnable and derogatory. Which antisemtic statement are you referring to?”
He asked: “Will we refer to it to our lawyers or do you want to interact on a corrective statement?”
After a while, van der Kolk doubled his non-epology and sent a new statement to publish a Hornfor-Ginter, stating that his “brief comment” about Israel was aligned with the statements of world leaders, who strongly condemned Israeli works. ,
He asked, “Are all those antiseytes?”
I wish, I would be surprised by Van Der Kolk’s derogatory remarks towards Israeli Jews, and the way he rescued and subsequently is separated, but I am not.
At the end of 2023, when I launched a non -profit organization, Israel healing initiativeCruel October 7 For the treatment of the survivors of Hamas massacre, I approached all colleagues for support. Van der Kolk replied with a satirical note: “Happy to help. What are you doing for families of 27,000 people in Gaza, who have been killed …?”
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The message was clear: he would not support me and question Israel’s morality if I was not helping Palestinians together. The irony is that I was treating Palestinians for trauma long before 7 October, although never crossed the path with van der Kolk once.
We have an antisemitism problem in the so -called treatment community. Earlier this year, 3,625 mental health professionals – under banner psychologists against antisementism – one sent Open letter For the leaders of the American Psychological Association, or APAs, the demand for action against the antisementary posts, objectionable remarks from the division heads and the holding number of organizational silence and the record number of the Jews facing the advertisements of October. Their call was not for special treatment, but for recognition that prejudice within trauma care reduces both moral standards and treatment process. Rape. Richie Torres, DN.Y. Lining The signingist of the open letter, warning that the APA was at stake as a scientific institution.
Major figures such as a celebrity trauma doctor and the best -selling writer of five books, Gabor Matte, have reduced this atmosphere of antisementism by denying evidence of arranged sexual violence by Hamas militants on 7 October, a dismissal that he has never lagged back. His claim was later refused Dina Project, An independent team of international lawyers and gender-violence experts, who led the most comprehensive investigation into sexual violence in the October 7 attacks and concluded that the rapes were systematic and deliberately. In a preacher Video for AJ+ The platform operated by Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV channel, Matte, stated that allegations of antismitism often “are completely condemnable uses of Jewish trauma to justify the Palestinian trauma,” a framing he portrays as a Jewish trauma for criticizing as a Jewish trauma.
In Texas, around 700 physicians signed Open letter After Jewish colleagues reported the prejudice in training programs and colleagues groups against antisemiamitism. In Chicago, there were doctors with Jewish-Landy Names Put in black list Under estimates, they should be zionists from referral lists, triggering a state morality investigation.
Van der Kolk’s comment highlights a deep innings in the region: politicization of trauma care. Rapid, trauma is filtered through an ideological lens, in which the afflicted is weighed against political allegiance. Within this hierarchy, Jewish trauma is frequent devaluation.
Imagine if the van der Kolk had told black patients that they left therapy because it was “more important to be a part of their tribe [than to] Tell the truth about what is going on in the community. “Or if he stood in front of Chinese students and was declared, without nuances, that the Chinese are” Nazis “. The outrage would be immediate and heavy.
Nevertheless, when the same argument is applied to the Jews, it is tolerated – even in professional workshops where people seek treatment. The failure to identify the wound that he has provoked is not a minor lapse. This highlights how ideological outlines have participated in trauma care, even blinded the most efficient physicians and deepened injuries that they claim to treat.
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Van der Kolk’s comment highlights more than an individual bias. They explain how leaders can also absorb inhuman narratives that surround the Israelis and eradicate Jewish suffering. As a leading psychiatrist, others were assigned to teach how to treat trauma, their failure to identify this distortion is more than disappointing. It reduces their reliability as an ointment.
When the ideology replaces clinical clarity, very structure means that the survivor becomes a tool of loss and healing, it leaves Jewish trauma unheard and unnaturally from this war.
As Judy Levethal, a psychiatrist and daughter of a Holocost Survivor, Remembered thatAfter going out of the painful workshop, which was led by Van Der Kolk on trauma: “My body scored.”
