[Article 8]

[Romany]

[The Rainbow Ball - the Globe]

Our address:
Nadace Tolerance
Senovazne namesti 24
116 47, Praha 1
tel.:/fax: (02) 24 10 23 14

E-mail: tolerance@ecn.cz

Bank account:
KB - 69732-111/0100

Webmaster: WEBLOTOS

The project has been
supported by:
Bader Fndt.,
British Council,
Prague Jewish Community

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Those who survived racial persecution and concentration camps have often been afflicted by post-traumatic syndrome. Its consequences - namely increased tendency towards depression and anxiety, loss of confidence and self-confidence, dialogue disruption, taboo formation - can affect further generations. The project wishes to concentrate on their members as well.

Unlike countries with not interrupted democratic tradition, where these people have been receiving psycho-therapeutic treatment for decades, corresponding care is still lacking in the Czech Republic.

The Families After Holocaust Project has an additional, further reaching purpose as well: to gather experience and establish general rules for working with victims of totalitarian violence, political prisoners, refugees or ethnic minorities that have had to face group hostility, such as the Roma or Vietnamese in the Czech Republic.

What action does the Tolerance Foundation take?

Since 1995, a group of psychotherapists has been meeting regularly to study relevant literature together and provide mutual supervision.

In 1996, the Tolerance Foundation carried out two weekend workshops dedicated to this topic. Mrs Irene Bloomfield, a leading British group analyst together with Mrs Gaby Glassman, expert in this field, led the seminars. Members of the work group had their cases supervised, attended lectures and discussions. Furthermore, lectures and discussions for a wider expert audience were held on the first evenings of the workshops.

The group psychotherapy is provided by professional psychotherapists who have undergone necessary training and have already dealt with individual clients afflicted by the Holocaust. All group work will respect the usual psycho-therapeutic rules, notwithstanding the rule of confidential information.

The Czech Association for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy participates in this project.