PSYCHOTRAUMA. Matei Gall, renowned author and holocaust survivor reads from his autobiographic essay during a symposium entitled Survivors of the Holocaust Late Life Effects of Psychotrauma , jointly organized by vivo and the Swiss NGO Gero, in Konstanz, Germany, April, 2001. Vivo acknowledges ethno-cultural differences as well as individual uniqueness. Psychotrauma has caused suffering throughout the evolution of humankind. Regardless of the specific cultural background of a victim, suffering from post-traumatic symptoms is a person-unique as well as human universal response to a horrifying or life-threatening experience. Vivo based its conviction on the knowledge and assumption of basic anthropological, psychological and biological equality of mankind in this respect, since traumata challenge the fundamental being of a person. Amid peril and pain, humans do not differ in their emotional and somatic involvement to which they experience the psychological exposure of traumatic impact! vivo's core principles are impartiality and ethical behaviour through psychotrauma work that is professional and measurable, based on scientific knowledge as well as field experience
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