November 11, 2005 7:00 p.m. Great Hall
of the DeKoven
Center (
November 12, 2005 7:00 p.m. Marquette
University
Cudahy
Hall
001 (
Story
in the Racine Journal Times Nov. 5, 2005
Ed
is a transformational healer, mythologist, a psychotherapist,
writer, poet,
editor and educator. He
received a Ph.D.
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a clinical member of the
He has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1975. His general practice of psychotherapy includes extensive and innovative work with survivors of severe trauma, especially war, sexual and substance abuse, severe mental and emotional disorders, men's issues, and psychospiritual healing.
Ed
is also an expert in both the classical
Greek and Native American traditions. He has studied their healing
practices
and their applications to modern clinical work. He has published
extensively on
these two traditions, lead psycho-educational journeys to
WAR AND THE SOUL
Introduction
The mortars have stopped falling. The napalm has stopped burning. The tracers have stopped screaming through the terrifying nights. But in nightmares and flashbacks, old battles still rage.
Trapped in a combat mentality, the mind is forever vigilant, poised for danger, on the lookout for threats. Still living in an interior war zone, the heart responds to everyday situations as though they were vicious attacks, to ordinary relationships as though they were the friends and enemies from the battlefield.
Thus, while our nation and others around the world continue their war-making, while many citizens living in safety and affluence remain ignorant of war's true cost, countless veterans and survivors remain trapped for life in that landscape of hell we call war.
Under such conditions, what of the soul? How does war invade, wound, and transform our psychospiritual core? After such brutal and complete penetration, how can healing occur? And how can we, our nation and world come to grips with the truth of war?
WAR AND THE SOUL examines warfare as the soul experiences it and offers a path to healing from war as the soul and nations need it.