Some victims want to understand why they cannot trust people - even their own children, says lead counsellor
‘People don’t want to look back because they don’t want to grapple with their younger selves’The two-year pilot project, now extended until the end of 2024, has so far seen 37 people take up the offer of counselling in four different towns. The largest age cohort is 50-65 but five people over 80 have sought counselling as well as three aged 50 or younger.
The most frequent reason for seeking counselling, she says, is an effort to understand the consequences of some of the injustices they have experienced. The monthly counselling appointments, with follow-up phone appointments available in between, are not full therapy sessions. Instead, says Morawe, they are about helping people understand how past experiences affect their present and giving them visualisation tools to influence the effects of their trauma.
Following German unification in 1990, parliamentary hearings heard testimony about people’s daily lives – and struggles – in East Germany.
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