In February 2023 98-year-old former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care and began spending his remaining time at home with his family. This paper describes his personal, and The Carter Center's financial, support for applying psychoanalytic approaches to understanding and calming large-group conflicts in Estonia and Albania and helping to enrich psychoanalytic knowledge of large-group psychology.
Keywords: Tree Model; accordion phenomenon; chosen glory; chosen trauma; large-group identity; mini-conflict; non-sameness; psychological border; time collapse; time expansion; transgenerational transmission; undigested trauma.
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