Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203718
O. Lashko
ABSTRACT The author describes how she and her colleagues recovered from their state of shock after the invasion of their country by the Russian Federation army by coming together to create hotlines and chat sites to help their traumatized and threatened population. Flooded by day and night calls from traumatized Ukrainians under assault, they learned that by simply being there with others and listening to them was what was most needed and helped the caller as well as the listener. The humanity of this interaction provided both a much-needed counterweight to the inhumanity surrounding them.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2205783
Kateryna Ostashova
ABSTRACT In this short essay, Kateryna Ostashova reports on her clinical work during wartime, and her work with families (one of her specialties.) She underlines the importance of maintaining freedom of thought, reflection, and interaction with patients, even amidst unimaginable conditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203158
G. Lazos
ABSTRACT In this essay, the author attempts to describe how the pressures of the crisis and the trauma created by the war in Ukraine have reshaped and transformed both her identity as a dynamic psychotherapist and her typical relationship with her patients. As both therapists and patients are grappling with their own safety and their contribution to the war effort, the therapeutic neutrality and anonymity the author had been trained to maintain are now making no sense. Through dramatic clinical vignettes illustrating these struggles, the author describes how certain feelings abound, guilt and shame for those who flee for the safety of other countries, and anger, envy and resentment for those who are left behind, and how these feelings are being played out in the therapeutic relationships. Ethical dilemma forces her to abandon her neutral stance with some patients and contribute to reshape her own sense of professional identity. In the end, through intense and anxious questioning, the search for human connection in the face of horrors seem to survive and support both patients and therapists.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2209129
O. Fedorets
ABSTRACT In this essay, Oleksandr Fedorets reports his experience of counseling veterans of combat, both in the current invasion and in the Maidan revolution of 2013–2014. Doctor Fedorets eschews the notion of a neutral analytic “third position,” in wartime scenarios, in favor of a more humanitarian, trauma-informed “bearing witness” as discussed by Israeli and other analytic communities. The author reminds us that the stakes could not be higher, offering clinical vignettes both hopeful and catastrophic.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2205775
Natalia Felbaba, Darren Haber
ABSTRACT In this interview, Natalia Falbaba takes us directly in the context of wartime upheaval and disruption by describing her initial strong emotional burnout response to working with displaced people in Western Ukraine where she lives and to having her brother join the army and fight on the front lines. After going back to her therapeutic practice, she describes how the war context changed her relationship to patients as they needed to find out more about how she was coping, radically changing the asymmetry of it. She was amazed to experience the therapeutic power of simply being a true witness to their distress even though she couldn’t solve their problems or guide them concretely, especially with adolescents who cannot turn to their overburdened parents. Access to tears and grieving held back to survive is a relief and can be triggered by listening to daily news.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203028
R. Kechur, Darren Haber
ABSTRACT In this interview, Dr Roman Kechur discusses the unsurmountable task of the therapist, in the context of the war in Ukraine, to remain open to feelings in order to maintain spontaneity and to preserve thinking so as not to succumb to chaos. He also analyzes the historical forces in presence between Ukraine and Russia which Putin seems to harness to reproduce their historical trauma and how the Ukrainians are struggling to change the scenario and rewrite it by confronting him and his army. Finally, he discusses with Darren Haber the limits to transformative experiences and the chaos occasioned by the growing inability to distinguish fantasy from lies in our political, social and cultural contexts, especially in the war context. Hope lies in the possibility of rewriting memories in the context of a new relationship instead of repeating them. This interview, as well as this whole issue, is aligned with the need to have witnesses to the stories, to find some new meaning. “You’re our doctors here,” concludes Kechur.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2209139
P. Lushyn
ABSTRACT Psychologist Pavel Lushyn, Ph.D. describes his escape and exile from his Ukrainian home on February 24, 2022. In fleeing for the border, his home in flames, he worries about running out of gas and a working GPS. Eventually he finds himself a new world, but with a continued purpose: working with patients and helping them also find ways to survive and carry on amidst a chaos and uncertainty previously unthinkable. Yet Lushyn remains optimistic that the synthesis of old and new can lead to creative adaption amidst tumult, innovative and emergent, even when circumstances are unpredictable or even shocking.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203030
John A. Sloane
ABSTRACT The author dialogues directly and personally with Anna Gladkaya’s poignant text which triggered many resonant meanings from his own traumatic past, emotional chords struck by what rang true in Anna’s account.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2203033
Viktoria Zhyrova
ABSTRACT In this short essay, Zhyrova describes life as a psychologist under Russian invasion. She includes both the value of connection and the inescapable sorrow of loss, and the eventual need to move abroad. This like everything else in the current scenario is an impossible contradiction, her exile bringing both safety and further estrangement from her home and loved ones.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2023.2205785
V. Symulyk, Darren Haber
ABSTRACT In this honest interview, Viktoria Symulyk shares her clinical experience of working with domestic violence, with the difficulties of residual trauma and changing public perception, especially with male-dominated audiences. She offers a grim but honest overview of the current situation in wartime, with the hope of increased awareness and empathy for those living with an abuser, especially now that her entire country is suffering traumatic abuse on a broad and horrifying scale. She also notes that her younger generation is much more accepting of the sociocultural problem of gender bias and violence against (mostly) women and families, and more willing to ask for help when needed, including young boys.
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