Paul Valent

Country:   Australia
Region:  Victoria
Areas:  Melbourne

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I was born in 1938 just before the Holocaust which I survived with my parents in Hungary. That early experience led to my interest in the workings of the mind and in traumatology.
I have worked as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist for 35 years, and as a liaison psychiatrist in the emergency department of major hospitals for 20 years. I was among the first traumatologists in Australia and cofounded the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies of which I am a past president. I am also founder and past president of the Child Survivors of the Holocaust group in Melbourne, Australia. Currently I have retired from all these activities.
In the course of my work I saw the close interactions between mind body and society, and how trauma disrupts the normal fulfilment strivings of biopsychosocial humans. I have developed a framework (the wholist perspective) to denote details of fulfilment and of survival strategies that mitigate stress and trauma.
I acknowledge the wisdom of my patients and colleagues who have contributed to whatever I know.
I hope that you will enjoy the works I have chosen for this web site, works I consider relevant to today's world.
Paul Valent