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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from âtraumatic invalidationâ after Oct. 7
Description: Diaspora Jews have spent nearly two full years seeing posters of Israeli hostages ripped down in public, hearing chants of âGo back to Polandâ in the streets, and seeing Zionists banned from progressive organizations and events. After all that, Diaspora Jews could be suffering from a condition called âtraumatic invalidationâ. The diagnosis is contained in a research paper published this year by two Jewish Harvard Universityâaffiliated psychologists who specialize in trauma.
The symptoms include anxiety, depression, shame and, in extreme cases, post-traumatic stress disorder. The authors found that Jewish patients reported their pain and trauma after Oct. 7 has been not o...