The Soul Repair Center offers free monthly webinars of use to religious leaders and professional caregivers supporting veterans and their families.

A Conversation with Judith Herman about her new book, Truth and Repair
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CST
Online

Register at https://voa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tc7HWMlkTvCkcsxK6G3nPA

In her previous book, Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman, MD, described recovery from trauma as regaining agency and safety, grieving and making meaning, and re-engaging with community. In her new work, Trauma and Repair, she focuses on the collective aspect of trauma as pointing toward the need for justice. Rita Nakashima Brock will engage Dr. Herman in a conversation about this new resource.

Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. For thirty years, until she retired, she served as Director of Training for the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. Judy is the author of the award-winning books Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981), and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984 and the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.  Her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, was published in March 2023.

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Recovery Programs at Volunteers of America. She leads the organization’s efforts to create effective moral injury recovery programs and to educate the public about the many populations who experience it. A noted theologian, Dr. Brock co-founded the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School and directed it for five years, and she was a consultant for the creation of the Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University. She is co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War, Beacon Press, 2012, and Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us, Beacon Press, 2001. As an expert on moral injury, she has offered trainings to VA mental health providers and chaplains, USAID staff, spiritual care providers, healthcare and military chaplains, corrections officers, veterans’ organizations, and social workers, and she has served on thesis committees for graduate students at various universities.  

Register at https://voa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tc7HWMlkTvCkcsxK6G3nPA