Partners:
Partners:
BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED. . . A SHINING GEM OF ARTISTIC INTEGRITY, "BLIND TRUST" OFFERS NOT ONLY AN EVOCATIVE VISUAL MONTAGE OF TROUBLED SPOTS ACROSS THE GLOBE BUT ALSO A FORCEFUL REMINDER OF OUR SHARED HUMANITY. . .THE INFORMATIVE BLOOD OF VOLKAN'S "LARGE GROUP PSYCHOLOGY" FLOWS THROUGH THE PURPOSIVE VEINS OF THIS VISUALLY RICH, SUPERBLY EDITED, AND DEFTLY DIRECTED FILM!
SALMAN AKHTAR, Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior,
Thomas Jefferson Medical College
BOTH BEGINNERS IN THE FIELD OF TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY & CONFLICT RESOLUTION & EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS WILL GET MUCH
FROM WATCHING THIS FILM. . . AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION AS PART OF TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION.
RENATE GRØNVOLD BUGGE, Psychologist & Consultant,
The Red Cross & Norwegian People's Aid
AN AMAZING, MOVING, ACCESSIBLE FILM ABOUT THE UNCONSCIOUS DYNAMICS, LARGE GROUP IDENTITIES, & SHARED TRAUMA THAT LIE BEHIND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.
ED SHAPIRO, Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center
A FASCINATING & SOPHISTICATED STUDY OF A BOY WHO SURVIVED WAR-TORN, ETHNICALLY-DIVIDED CYPRUS & GREW UP TO BECOME THE WORLD RENOWNED PSYCHOANALYST NOMINATED 5 TIMES FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
IRA BRENNER, Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College
ONE CAN SEE IN THIS FILM A SPECIAL AURA AROUND THIS MAN WHO HAS MANAGED TO WITNESS THE WORST OF HUMANITY YET BRING FAITH AND LOVE TO THE SADDEST SITUATIONS.
ANN BENNETT MIX, Founder, American WWII Orphans Network
A TRULY BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF FILM ART. . . A CINEMATIC TRIUMPH.
JOSEPH MONTVILLE, Director of Healing Historic Memory,
Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
A THOUGHT PROVOKING ESSAY - ON - FILM. MAKES BRILLIANT USE OF SILENT ILLUSTRATION.
The Lancet
A FILM THAT SUGGESTS THERE IS NO CONFLICT ON EARTH THAT CANNOT BE UNLOCKED & CALMED DOWN, IF COMBATANTS & VICTIMS CAN LEARN TO MOURN.
BLAINE HARDEN, Washington Post's Former Bureau Chief
in Europe, Asia and Africa
AN ENTHRALLING PORTRAIT OF A REMARKABLE HUMANITARIAN WHO EMPLOYS A COSMOPOLITAN PSYCHOANALYSIS TO GIVE NEW LANGUAGE AND CURE TO THE QUINTESSENTIAL AILMENT OF OUR TIME -- THE ALCHEMICAL ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL, ETHNIC, AND NATIONAL NARCISSISM IN FOSTERING HATRED AND SECTARIAN VIOLENCE.
Robert Stam, University Professor, New York University
GROUP IDENTITY RELIES ON CHOSEN TRAUMAS TO GIVE THE GROUP A SENSE OF UNITY... PERCEIVED THREATS OR INSULTS CAN TRIGGER THOSE TRAUMAS AND RELEASE UNDERLYING AGGRESSION.
BRYAN MC KENZIE, The Daily Progress
EVERY DIPLOMAT & DIPLOMAT - IN -TRAINING SHOULD SEE THIS FILM.
HOWARD STEIN, Professor of Preventative Medicine, Poet Laureate,
