Koichi Togashi – founder of the Japanese Forum for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a psychoanalyst trained at TRISP – and I share an interest in finding out about the long-term effects and meanings of traumatic events. We are working together to understand how people who were traumatized by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the tsunami in Japan make sense of these devastating experiences. Do the meanings that the events had at first change over time? Are there cultural differences in the way people experience wide-scale traumas? Are the meanings different if the traumatic event was caused by humans or a natural catastrophe?
Koichi will be in New York from September 4th to September 11th. During that time we will be conducting open-ended interviews with people who were traumatized by the events of 9/11. The one-time-only interviews would take approximately one hour and would be conducted at my office, 350 Central Park West (between 94th and 95th Streets), Suite 1AD. We are looking for people who are interested in participating in the study. Please spread the word. Volunteers may contact me at at 212-864-6333 or dorisbrothers@mac.com.
Many thanks and good wishes,
Doris Brothers
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