Abstract
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 psychodynamics toward a plurality of voices and more openness toward the extra-therapeutic reality. At the time of the survey, we saw that approaches claiming to be apolitical continue to rule the day even now. The findings of that survey, in fact, can be seen as a lively illustration of how politics is being denied in Israel’s professional discourse. As I mentioned, this is a very precarious process, whether on the individual therapeutic level, or the social-collective.
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Avissar, N. (2016). An Israeli Psychotherapy?. In: Psychotherapy, Society, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57597-5_15
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