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This International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma commemorative, solidarity, psychohistorical webinar is held in collaboration with the Department of medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, in observance of the anniversary of the 24 February, 2022 invasion of Ukraine. To fully understand the traumatogenic experiences of the present, this war and its concomitant large-scale humanitarian crises must be viewed from the perspective of the countless losses and mass human rights violations that have brutally (re)visited upon Ukraine throughout the twentieth century (WWI, WWII, famines, Holodomor, Holocaust, Stalinist’s repressions, Chernobyl). Multidisciplinary experts will reflect on the current and examine the cumulative effects of these historical devastating events and collective traumata during those and of the Soviet Era and their impacts on succeeding generations. The discussion will draw parallels with the all-too-many tragic massive traumatizing events around the world today.
Speakers:
Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, PhD
The current Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, USA, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, founded the Institute of Church History and was a rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University where he now serves as its president. Gudziak is historian, theologian, and educator who authored and edited several books on church history, theology, modern church life, and higher education reforms.
Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, PhD
Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences and professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Prof. Hrystsak is the Director of the Institute for Historical Studies of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and a member of the supervisory board of Harvard Ukrainian Studies.
Boris Khersonskiy, MD
A poet, an essayist, member of PEN Ukraine, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and rector of the Kyiv Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy from Odesa, Ukraine, in the Soviet times, Dr. Khersonsky was part of the Samizdat movement, which disseminated alternative, nonconformist literature through unofficial channels. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he published seventeen collections of poetry and essays in Russian and, most recently, in Ukrainian.
Orest Suvalo, MD
A psychiatrist, coordinator of community-based mental health services development at the Mental Health for Ukraine project, coordinator of projects at Institute of Mental Health of Ukrainian Catholic University, and co-chair of the Lviv region local MHPSS group.
Hanna Mokrousova, MA
Having specialized in trauma-focused psychotherapy and crisis counseling, Hanna is Co-founder of and psychologist at the Blue Bird Non-Governmental Organization, which provides psychological, legal and humanitarian support to people who survived captivity, their family members and to families of the missing.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
