NOTE: GUEST SPEAKER  Dr. Edward Tick will speak on "War and The Soul"

                       November 11, 2005  7:00 p.m. Great Hall of the DeKoven Center (Racine, WI)
                       November 12, 2005  7:00 p.m. Marquette University Cudahy Hall 001 (Milwaukee,WI)

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 American Academy of Psychotherapists, as well as various other professional organizations. He is also ordained as a Pastoral Psychotherapist by the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person.

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 Greece, and has studied with traditional Native healers as well.

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.