Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Domestic and Sexual Violence: Discussion
11:40 am
Ms Felicity Kennedy:
While I do not wish to sound arrogant, in some ways ours is quite unique. I went to a conference last year in Harvard dealing with psychotherapy and women. Of course, I went to learn but part of what I came away with was a sense of pride in what we are doing here. There is a lot of work in the United States and the UK in terms of understanding complex trauma because a lot of the men, and some women, of course, have been traumatised in the wars. There is a tradition in the United States, from Vietnam, of looking at the trauma. What we are doing here is looking more at women's trauma and relational trauma, and setting up, I think, quite a unique model of working with women recovering.
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