The Violence is Within
By Scott Baum, PhD, CBT

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Can our professional organizations be exemplars and models of authority relationships? Can we embody what we learn from our clinical work and refuse to tolerate the abuses of power which are so damaging and often so subtle? My experience tells me that this is very hard to do. It requires seeing and knowing that the forces that promote the violence are present in our institutions and in ourselves. It also means being vulnerable to and dependent on the perceptions and awareness of others to find the truth of the effects of our behavior. Once we are able to do this, perhaps we will be more effective therapists, rooting out the hidden pieces of violence, raising our own and our clients’ consciousness and taking what we learn our into the world.

Only then will we begin to stop the violence.

Scott Baum is a clinical psychologist and Bioenergetic therapist living with his family and working in New York City.

Scott will be speaking at the upcoming Southern California Bioenergetic Conference in Lake Arrowhead, California, February 18-21, 2005. For information about the conference, email cldcrsng@aol.com or call 909-798-7711 Ext. 7.

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