Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA), 2019
/A not-for-profit charity organization, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) is unique in its location of pain and guilt within the group, rather than in the individual. While PCCA is a community-based psychoanalytic and social welfare enterprise led by psychanalysts from various countries, it also attracts and recruits many non-analysts. PCCA seeks to positively impact the residual effects of trauma and atrocities on individuals, communities, and national groups. PCCA represents the extension and application of psychoanalysis to the sphere of social reality and offers a fruitful way of dealing with large scale trauma, beginning with the Holocaust and extending to other atrocities, victims and perpetrators.
A not-for-profit charity organization, PCCA has developed and applied a unique approach to working with traumatized groups, national and international. PCCA’s method represents a novel amalgamation of psychoanalytic insights with group relations concepts and structure. An underlying principle is the need for each group to do its work in the actual presence of the other. This working method was used successfully with the residual effects of the Holocaust on Germans and Israelis and has been extended and applied to other nationality groups.