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A unique memoir and an urgent blueprint for change
Know Thyself: Our Hidden Selves in a Precarious World
Mental Health in the Times of the Pandemic
The pandemic threw our world up in the air. We deal with the immediacy of survival. We try to orientate ourselves, but our minds are in a fog. We are captured by many feelings and sensations …
Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other
Violence is the plague of our civilization. Its many tentacles – domestic violence, criminal violence, sexual abuse, terrorism, state violence, revolution, war and genocide threaten us daily. Read more…
In Two Minds; Tales of a Psychotherapist
Paul Valent, retired medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and traumatologist, describes the struggles and discoveries in his varied four-decade career. Each chapter offers a glimpse into different psychotherapeutic encounters, be it with survivors of natural disasters, with patients in emergency departments, or in psychotherapy with adults who suffered recent or distant traumas. We even meet perpetrators in his stories. Read more…
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
At the end of the Second World War, approximately 1.5 million Jewish children had been killed by the Nazis. In this book, ten child survivors, of different ages, from different countries, and with varied experiences, tell their stories. Paul Valent, himself a child survivor and psychiatrist, explores with profound analytical insight the deepest memories of the now grown up children whom he interviewed. Read more…
From Survival to Fulfillment
When survival or fulfilment are threatened, people manifest a great variety of responses and consequences. They range from basic instincts to the most sublime aspects of life. They include physical, psychological, and social symptoms and illnesses, and they vary according to time, place, age, and social system, as well as the particular way people tried to survive and thrive. Read more…
Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy
This book follows logically From Survival to Fulfillment, in its practical applicability to diagnose and repair tears in the human fabric. Dr Valent initially reviews the variety of treatments applied over the last century, from Freud and Janet to the current use of drugs, debriefing, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, and cognitive behaviour therapy. Using his wholist perspective, Dr Valent puts them in perspective and finds their common ingredients. Read more…