Why Therapy Works: a talk by Robin Shapiro – Robin Shapiro, psychotherapist and author/editor of three books on therapy and EMDR, talks about the stages of trauma therapy and what makes for a good outcome.

No End to Trauma for Some Older Veterans

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So Mr. Perna was 80 when he finally made his way to the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, where he began therapy with Dr. Cook and joined other World War II and Korean War veterans in a Thursday afternoon support group. “We began to understand what …
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Making peace with the war inside

Filed under: trauma therapy

PABLO — War veterans without a doubt pay the cost for freedom, whether it is with their life, or a downward indescribable spiral into depression and substance abuse from the mental trauma of combat. The robbing of life does not halt after the warzone …
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