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Newsletter
Vol. II, No. V.
Seventeenth Issue,
September 2003
URGENT COMMUNIQUE
FROM
The World Islamic Association for Mental Health
The World Islamic Association for Mental Health which has a world-wide membership encompassing mental health practitioners in all mental health specializations, reaches out in solidarity and empathy to all who are suffering in the tragic struggle of the Palestinians to obtain the liberation of their homeland and to obtain basic human rights, safety and freedom.
Realizing the terrible and long-lasting effects of trauma, especially that of the cumulative and overwhelming trauma which the Palestinians are experiencing on a daily basis, the World Islamic Association for Mental Health, calls upon our Palestinian colleagues to share with us a specific ideas concerning how we can be of direct and indirect assistance.
The World Islamic Association for Mental Health further calls upon the world-wide mental health community, including our Jewish colleagues who have been the historic victims of trauma, to educate all citizens about the devastating effects of cumulative trauma, which include such issues as loss and grief, depression and hopelessness, rage and despair.
History has clearly demonstrated as we can now see, that such chronic and unremittingly severe traumatization can lead to national pathological behaviors such as identification with the aggressor, dehumanization of the other and ultimately the desire for total elimination and destruction of the other through state-sponsored and personal acts of terrorism. The Palestinians are now the victims of such historically traumatized peoples.
The World Islamic Association for Mental Health looks forward to joining with our Palestinian colleagues to help deal with the massive devastation and trauma to which their people are being subjected on a massive and unprecedented scale. We await your specific responses about how we can help and urge other mental health associations and practitioners to do the same.
URGENT-RESPONSE SOUGHT - URGENT-RESPONSE SOUGHT
Please send urgent responses to:
M. F. El Sendiony
Secretary General of WIAMH
Email: felsendiony@yahoo.com
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