Pioneering psychiatrist's shocking remark reveals field's antisemitism problem

We have an antisemitism problem in the so-called healing community. Orli Peter is a clinical and neuropsychologist based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of the Israel Healing Initiative, a nonprofit healing trauma survivors at the speed of science. She can be reached via opeter@israelhealinginitative.org.

This story would be just another unseemly saga of an academic falling from grace, but it is much more. It’s a cautionary tale of how even the most celebrated voices in the psychology and healing fields can become ideologically captured and carry blind spots so profound that they leave Jewish trauma invisible, mischaracterized or invalidated in moments of greatest vulnerability.