Healing the Soul Wound
Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities

Eduardo Duran (Author)

9780807761397

Paperback / softback, published 25 October 2019

208 pages
22.6 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.29 kg

On the First 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

“[Translates] Western metaphor into indigenous ideas that make sense to Native People. Duran is one of our profession’s top contemporary authors… He invites us to walk through the doors of his books and we should do so.”- Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

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.

• 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 #1: 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 Healing 
  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 
  175
• 10. 
  Before Completion 
  178
• References 
  183
• Index 
  187
• About the Author 
  193