Paul Valent

MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
Writer.

Holocaust

This section examines various aspects of the Holocaust as experienced by adults, children, and subsequent generations. The Holocaust informs and validates other traumas. What help survivors may benefit from is considered.

The Nature of Memory Across the Generations

Nature, Treatment, Memory, Bearing Witness

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission

Comparison with other Traumas

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 ... (more…)

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. (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, psychod

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 so

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 emer

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, explore