Abstract
Abstract The Israeli-Polish Mental Health Association is a bi-national society of mental health professionals. Presentation of its twelve years experience in working through memories of traumatic past was rationale of the text. The traumatic past had been extermination of Jews, by Germans on Polish territory with witnessing Poles. Dynamic group technique had been employed in debate stimulated by theoretical lectures and research results presentations concerning background of anti-Semitism, hatred, Shoah, collective trauma consequences and intergenerational transmission of trauma. Obstacles in the process and suggested measures aiming to overcome these difficulties as described by participants were discussed. Author’s assessment of results of using therapeutic methods to solve mass trauma consequences in next generation of victims and witnesses conclude the essay.
Highlights
Polish mental health professionals participated in founding such associations with their colleagues from several European countries: France, Germany, Italy
Results on current research focused on the Holocaust trauma were presented and discussed at the symposia, published [28,29,30,31]. It is significant and meaningful for the Israeli-Polish Mental Health Association (IPMHA) members that the NAZI extermination of Jews was executed in its major part on the Polish soil, in presence of witnessing Poles
The most important part of the IPMHA activity has been a series of symposia composed of lectures and debate in small group dynamic format
Summary
The Israeli-Polish Mental Health Association is a bi-national society of mental health professionals. An example can be a series of conferences of The American Psychiatric Association organized in Cracow (Poland) , Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Budapest (Hungary) in co-operation with respective psychiatric societies [4] Such events are very important, but do not facilitate long-lasting working together. Polish mental health professionals participated in founding such associations with their colleagues from several European countries: France, Germany, Italy. In spite of geographical distance separating Israel and Poland, and in spite of language difference, Israeli and Polish mental health professionals had decided to organize the Israeli-Polish Mental Health Association (IPMHA)/ PolskoIzraelskie Towarzystwo Zdrowia Psychicznego (PITZP). Israeli and Polish mental health professionals were accompanied by significant group of German colleagues from DPGSG. The IPMHA activities and problems have been already presented [7, 8]
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