Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities / Edition 2

by Eduardo Duran, Allen E. Ivey

Overview

In this groundbreaking book, Eduardo Duran—a psychologist working in Indian country—draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. This second edition includes an important new chapter devoted to working with veterans, examining what it means to go to war and what is required for veterans to heal. Duran also updates his thinking on research, including suggestions on how to invent a new liberation research methodology through applied story science. Translating theory into day-to-day practice, the text presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies for prevalent problems, including substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. This unique resource explores theoretical Indigenous understanding of cosmology and how understanding natural law can lead us to new ways of understanding and healing the psyche.

Book Features:

• Offers a culture-specific approach that has profound implications for all counseling, therapy, and trauma-informed care.
• Provides invaluable concepts and strategies that can be applied directly to practice.
• Outlines very different ways of serving American Indian clients, translating Western metaphor into Indigenous ideas that make sense to Native People.
• Presents a model in which patients have a relationship with the problems they are having, whether these are physical, mental, or spiritual. This model can be used with any population dealing with the legacy of trauma and with all individuals who present symptoms and complications resulting from trauma.
• Includes a section in each chapter to help non–American Indian counselors generalize the concepts presented to use in their own practice in culturally sensitive ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807761397
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	10/25/2019
Series:	Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series
Edition description:	2
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	218,803
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Eduardo Duran is currently a psychologist and consultant working and living in Bozeman, Montana.

Table of Contents

Foreword Allen E. Ivey xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

A Brief Look at Relevant Literature 4

The Importance of Cultural Competence 7

Previous Treatment and Research: Methods of Oppression 11

1 Wounding Seeking Wounding: The Psychology of Internalized Oppression 14

Liberation Psychology Through Hybridism 14

Intergenerational Trauma: The Soul Wound 17

The Psychology of the Healer 22

The Rape of Turtle Island 23

Starting a New Narrative 28

2 Overpathologizing Original People 31

Transference Toward Original People 32

Diagnosis as a Naming Ceremony 33

Therapists as Perpetrators of Historical Trauma 35

Clinical Racism in Indian Country 37

3 The Healing/Therapeutic Circle 41

In the Very Beginning 42

The Healing Container 44

The Identity of the Healer 45

Initial Sessions 48

4 Historical Trauma: Treating the Soul Wound 50

Case #7: Recognizing Violence as a Historical Inheritance 51

Case #2: Working with the Feeling Function 57

Conclusion 59

5 The Spirit of Alcohol: Treating Addiction 61

Teachings on the Spirit of Alcohol 61

Addiction as a Spiritual Disorder 63

Alcoholic as a Name 65

Case #3: Relating to the Spirit of Alcohol 67

Case #4: Interpreting a Dream Within a Group Session 76

Conclusion 78

6 Diagnosis: Treating Emotional Problems as Living Entities 80

Visits by Depression and Anxiety 81

Case #5; A Patient Visited by Depression and Anxiety 84

Conclusion: Pain and the Spirit of Heating 111

7 "All Conditions Normal": Working with Veterans 112

Warrior Soul Wounding 114

Injury Where Blood Doesn't Flow 116

Archetypal and Spiritual Understanding of Trauma 117

"He Restores My Soul" (Psalm 23:3) 120

Spirit of Suicide 120

Restoring Balance Through Gift Offerings 124

Don't Waste Your Suffering 125

Case Study 126

Transitional Therapy 143

Conclusion 145

8 Community Intervention 148

Is Research the Answer? 149

Liberation Research Through Community Story Sciencing 153

Interventions with Indigenous Communities 158

Addressing Religious Differences in Native Communities 162

Healing the Land 164

Conclusion: A Slow Process 166

9 Clinical Supervision 168

A Sample of Supervisory Dialogue 169

Conclusion s 175

10 Before Completion 178

References 183

Index 187

About the Author 193

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Duran begins by informing the reader that he is a witness as a new healing narrative emerges and transformation occurs. He shares ancient knowledge in a contemporary and engaging way.”
—Gayle Morse, licensed psychologist and professor at Russell Sage College

Praise for Previous Edition:

“Duran’s personal and engaging style captivates the reader as he or she catches a glimpse of what training with this master must be like .”
—PsycCRITIQUES

"I applaud and thank Doctor Duran for his gift and invite our colleagues in all communities to join in the new beginning. Let us stop tripping around in big western boots and walk again softly and gently in a Natural way in our communities."
—Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Editorial Reviews

The approaches discussed in this work are truly liberating and healing as they encompass the wisdom and respect for the diverse cultures of the world and their religions and spiritual traditions.”

—Spiritual Psychology and Counseling

From the Publisher