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To all of you relatives who have written to share your condolences on the loss of my mother, I say thank you. Your loving expressions have touched me, and I want to share this follow-up story.
One week after my mother’s burial I was in Germany to conduct a three-day workshop for mental health professionals entitled “The Science and Spirit of Healing.” This was my third trip to Germany and each time I go it gets easier to be there. My second-generation, survivor-son certainties and resentments have slowly undergone modifications. Most Germans are younger than me, and do not share any responsibility for the sins of their fathers. Anti-Semitism may be a transmittable disease, but it is not a national character.
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To all of you relatives who have written to share your condolences on the loss of my mother, I say thank you. Your loving expressions have touched me, and I want to share this follow-up story. One week after my mother’s burial I was in Germany to conduct a three-day workshop for mental health professionals entitled “The Science and Spirit of Healing.” This was my third trip to Germany and each time I go it gets easier to be there. My second-generation, survivor-son certainties and resentments have slowly undergone modifications. Most Germans are younger than me, and do not share any responsibility for the sins of their fathers. Anti-Semitism may be a transmittable disease, but it is not a national character.
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To all of you relatives who have written to share your condolences on the loss of my mother, I say thank you. Your loving expressions have touched me, and I want to share this follow-up story.
One week after my mother’s burial I was in Germany to conduct a three-day workshop for mental health professionals entitled “The Science and Spirit of Healing.” This was my third trip to Germany and each time I go it gets easier to be there. My second-generation, survivor-son certainties and resentments have slowly undergone modifications. Most Germans are younger than me, and do not share any responsibility for the sins of their fathers. Anti-Semitism may be a transmittable disease, but it is not a national character.
My workshop was designed to teach psychotherapists how to magnify their healing power by incorporating rituals, ceremonies, even ordeals into their therapeutic repertoire. It...
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