1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Israel-Gaza Conflict
Introduction
Paul Cundy
1. With so many conflicts, why have a special issue on the war in Israel/Palestine?
John, Lord Alderdice
2. Confronting the inhuman
Paul Hoggett
3. Some psychoanalytic reflections on the events in Gaza
David Bell
4. Understanding evil: a psychoanalytic perspective on the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023
Aner Govrin
5. The role of the revenge cycle in the conflict in Gaza
David Lotto
6. Transitioning from soldier’s matrix to the development of negative capability
Anna Zajenkowska, Agnieszka Chrzczonowicz-Stępień and Katarzyna Czajkowska-Łukasiewicz
7. Intractable international conflicts: psychodynamic understanding and hope for resolution
Allan Abbass, Yuval Alon, Johannes Ermagan, Jack Tawil and Reza Zarabi
8. Dissociation and trauma in the context of mental health responses for those populations affected by severe adversity and suffering during warfare: adopting a socio-cultural perspective on Israel-Palestine
Anne Jennings
9. When truth is not shared
Dana Amir
10. Vulnerable encounters: identities and their discontents
Yael Pilowsky Bankirer
11. Poetry and re-imagining in a time of crisis ‘Changing the very terms of the dilemma’
Mary Adams
Biography
Paul Cundy is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist who was employed in the NHS for 18 years. He now works in private practice, the third sector and higher education and is Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
