Abstract

Trauma is a communal event: the social fabric is rent apart. Trauma victims lose their social connections, familiar geography, habits, relative positioning, peers, and reference points in short: their very identity. People are set adrift, plucked out of context. Ukraine needs to reestablish communities digitally, if not in real life. The WHO guidelines are a good start. The population registry should be leveraged in this process of reconstruction and reconnection of erstwhile neighbors, now dispersed all over Europe. Mental health practitioners will serve as mediators and facilitators of these virtual healing portals.