ABSTRACT
In 2006, Dr Elya Steinberg, a body psychotherapy colleague, invited the author to co-lead an ongoing psychotherapy group for post-Shoah generations of victims, perpetrators and bystanders. Trans-historically understanding history as a current event, and considering victims, perpetrators and bystanders, however different their roles, as being caught up 'in the same malignant cultural complex', they intended the group to approach the past in terms of individual and collective traumas to understand and help heal one of the sources of the present Israeli and Palestinian conflict, one of the major issues currently dividing our world. The single exception from the resounding silence was the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS): in their online discussion group author's leaflet caused a considerable stir and ignited an almost month-long discussion. There was a considerable gender difference: women generally tended to respond from a perspective of empathy, whilst men were more intellectualising and attacking.
