JTA on "Traumatic Invalidation" and the Jewish Experience

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (New York, NY) - JTA
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This article from JTA discusses a new study from Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman. 

The Boston-area trauma therapists, writing in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, give a different name to the pain many Jews have felt over the last harrowing 20 months: “traumatic invalidation.” 

They apply the term to what Jews have reported in the months after the Hamas attacks: “Rather than being met with compassion and care,” they write, “many were instead met with a stunning mix of silence, blaming, excluding, and even outright denying the atrocities of Oct. 7 along with any emotional pain stemming from them.”

 

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These therapists give a name to the way Jewish distress has been ignored since Oct. 7: ‘Traumatic invalidation’
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  • Mental Health
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