Therapy for Mexico

  Collective Trauma can be understood as a catastrophic event or process that disarticulates the fundamental fabric and the basic structures that our society has created to sustain its way of life.   There are many kinds of catastrophes that can bring about collective trauma. The COVID-19 pandemic that the world is experiencing in this intense year of 2020 is one example, possibly the first one where collective trauma impacts the whole globe simultaneously. Our health systems, economic systems, global and local production chains, transport systems, both local and global, education systems, among others, have been disrupted severely, causing ripple effects in millions of individuals, families and communities worldwide. Other instances of collective trauma include natural disaster events, such as a hurricane or earthquake, or the impacts brought by a longer process, such as a draught or global warming. In all these, however, we human beings have the opportunity to reaffirm our belonging