Immediately after the Holocaust, while most of the survivors were waiting in the Displaced
Persons Camps for a resolution of their status, the Zionist movement's leadership together …

This book explores the psychological trauma affecting soldiers and civilians who have
encountered the violence of war or terrorism, arguing that the enigmas surrounding war …

This article examines psychotherapy in context—political, social, cultural and historical. It
does so by taking a close look at the Israeli psychotherapeutic community and how it …

We have seen that social-political circumstances considerably affect the nature of
psychological approaches, of psychotherapies and attitudes to the other. In this chapter, I try …

A discourse is a set of rules organizing language and knowledge,“a kind of mind-set that
structures understanding and behaviour”(Heywood 2000, p. 87). Every society or discipline …

In the previous two chapters, we have learnt about a rift in Israel's psychotherapy community,
which is in the midst of a process of change and transition from the hegemony of …

Real change has been underway in both the study program and the practical training of
psychology in Israel in recent years. It is a relatively intense and rapid process taking place …

The present chapter and the one following it both refer to the findings of a survey I conducted
among clinical psychologists in Israel. 1 The questionnaires I used included 11 open …