Abstract
This paper discusses the historical and political context in which Israeli analysts and therapists practice, particularly emphasizing the Israeli-Arab conflict and its traumatic influence. It proposes a potential role psychoanalytic understanding can play in detoxifying the most destructive aspects of the conflict, especially if non-judgmental empathy to the emotional experience of both sides can lead beyond moralistic splitting into "good" and "evil" and beyond a "doer and done-to" dichotomy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 82-93 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Psychotherapy and Politics International |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2015 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Boycott
- Cumulative trauma
- Doer and done-to
- Empathy
- Holocaust
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Occupation
- Social protest
- Terrorism
- Utopianism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General