‘We protect our systems more than our sheep’

Dr. Diane Langberg is a practicing psychologist whose clinical expertise includes 50 years of working with trauma survivors and clergy. She speaks internationally on topics related to women, trauma, ministry and the Christian life. She spoke to en during her recent visit to the UK.

RC: How did you get going on your journey, your calling?
DL: I think it’s important to know that in 1972 when I first started out, 50 years ago, trauma wasn’t a word – it was not a part of the diagnostic categories or a word we learned.

I began as a very young therapist who didn’t know very much, working with Vietnam veterans. I also worked with a lot of women, who would ask to see me because I was female. They began telling me things, things that I had never heard of.