Despite their different approaches, these films all attempt to answer how we can move on from October 7 and honor the victims and survivors.
For Israelis, there is no time to process trauma as we are so focused on emergency after emergency. Processing will happen when we feel safe enough to get out of survival mode.
The Gaza war is understandably widely influencing the therapeutic world, resulting in both individual and national trauma.
In the aftermath of the terror attack at the Nova music festival, survivors and experts call for sustained mental health care and support.
How can we engage in acts of ritual remembering when we are living in between “they tried to kill us” and “we prevailed?”
The potential target audience for these treatments consists of around 10,000 young people, said the Welfare Ministry, who anticipates that around 3,000 will make use of programs.
Explaining the inspiration for the film, Rob Mor says, “I couldn’t wait another moment to not try to help them see a glimpse of light at the end of this very dark tunnel called grief.”
Are they not concerned with the trauma our children have experienced – not just on October 7 but before and since?
It’s easily noticeable that so many of the doctors and nurses I work with at Hadassah Medical Organization are the sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors.
Harsh treatment of female soldiers: abused, humiliated, and pressured to enlist as observers following October 7 events, leading to anxiety, trauma, and severe consequences.