Above the fresh fracture
Clinical psychologist Michal Neuborn and her colleagues from the '7 Plus' association are developing a new therapeutic approach for war-related psychological injuries, which involves leaving the clinic to the field, visiting graves, and meeting with bereaved families, aiming to treat identity-moral injury and traumatic grief.
Clinical psychologist Michal Neuborn, co-founder of the '7 Plus – Circles of Hope' association, is leading a new therapeutic approach for war-related psychological injuries. The approach, called 'Psychotherapy for Identity-Moral Injury,' moves beyond the traditional clinic into the field. Neuborn describes how therapists accompany soldiers to the graves of their fallen comrades, conduct private farewell ceremonies, and meet with bereaved families. The article details four categories of identity-moral injury: the impact of killing, traumatic grief, forced choices, and 'fluorescent injuries' of those who were not in direct life-threatening danger. Neuborn emphasizes that the trauma is outside, and therapists today cry much more than ever before, in moments of togetherness against the loneliness of war.