The Trauma of Being Uprooted-Loneliness
Alienation is at the heart of the migrant experience and international relocation. The word alien conjures up feelings of fear, bringing to mind something slimy and distasteful, foreign and disturbing. When you cannot express yourself or what you want, when you feel that no one is...
The Crisis of being Uprooted
When most people enter my office they are suffering very deeply but they often have no idea why and even less idea that being uprooted may have something to do with it. Moving abroad, whether voluntary or involuntary, can be an absolutely life shattering event. It...
On Being a Patient.
"Your problem is the deepest signature of all that you had to live through". This thoughtful video offers a glimpse into the questions we perhaps can never answer, but the questions we must begin to ask as we embark on a therapeutic journey. Being uprooted...