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Treating the Untreatable – A Cautionary Tale About Love -Transference
Published at the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review February 2020 A different version was published in English...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 8, 202023 min read
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Ethical Considerations in Social Work with People with Mental Health Issues
INTRODUCTION "Little if anything that the helping professions do for their patients and clients takes place outside a context of the...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202020 min read
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Humanistic Psychology
INTRODUCTION Humanistic Psychology has developed as a movement in psychology from the twenties onwards in Europe and in the USA as a...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202019 min read
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Erving Goffman and Asylum
INTRODUCTION Although written thirty years ago, Erving Goffman's Asylums, as well as his other copious writings, is still the subject of...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202013 min read
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Community Care and the Feminist Perspective
INTRODUCTION "A feminist approach should mean more than putting women in the picture. It means criticising and renewing conceptual...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202015 min read
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Bullying - The Psychological, Sociological and Cultural Aspects
WHY BULLYING The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit in Nottingham, U.K., (Formerly Child and Family Therapy unit), offer a service to...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202018 min read
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Branco Weiss 2010-2012
During 2010-2012 I was appointed to be part of the national board of Branco Weiss school network. My role was to supervise the...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 20201 min read
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Dreaming in Alexandria: a Psychoanalytical Study of Dreams in The Alexandria Quartet
This is the English Abstract of an essay published in Hebrew at MA'ARAG, The Israeli Annuals of Psychoanalysis in 2012 This...
Rony Alfandary
Oct 18, 20204 min read
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Writing about Psychotherapy
Writing and psychotherapy dwell on the same plane for me - both pursue the same goal, which is to make life richer and more creative. I...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 30, 20207 min read
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The Who's Tommy - An Instance of Emotional Absence of a Father Traumatized by War
This article was first published in the American Journal of Psychotherapy in 2014 Abstract In his minor essay from 1914, Some Reflections...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 24, 202025 min read
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Road to Recovery
The Road to Recovery was established by Yuval Roth in 2010. Road to Recovery is an organization of thousands of Israeli volunteers,...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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Book Review: Talking until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica 1941-44
The facts are stark, if little known. Before World War II the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, Greece (Salonica, in its old Ottoman name)..
Rony Alfandary
Sep 21, 20204 min read
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A Remembrance of War
A Remembrance of War – Past and Present Traumatic Fragments in a case of an IDF soldier suffering from Anxiety Disorder...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 19, 202029 min read
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Social Injustice Protest Israel, 2011
The 2011 Israeli social justice protests (Hebrew: מְחָאָת צֶדֶק חֶבְרָתִי), were a series of demonstrations in Israel beginning in July...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 19, 20201 min read
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Leaving home and adolescence
Leaving home and adolescence in Lawrence Durrell’s Pied Piper of Lovers – A
Psychoanalytic Reading...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 18, 202028 min read
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To Be a Refugee: a Testimony of a Jewish Bulgarian Family
This article is the testimony of a Jewish family who fled Europe in 1944 and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Rony Alfandary
Sep 17, 202026 min read
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An Exile in the Room: A Clinical illustration and a Literary Footnote
This paper was first published in Vol 22(1) of Psychoanalytic Social Work Abstract In this paper, I shall describe the case of Dan, an...
Rony Alfandary
Aug 12, 202028 min read
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My time at Seminar Hakibbutzim
For two years, 2015-2016, I was the director of the Therapy Training Center at Seminar Hakibbutzim. During that time, I reorganized the...
Rony Alfandary
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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The ALIEN Film Cycle
It would be easy to dismiss the Alien film cycle (1979-1997) as merely another blockbuster, emerging from the Hollywood industry. True,...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 15, 20207 min read
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The Third Man and the Death of MAN
The Third Man is ostensibly a film about split loyalties in a divided city, Vienna, after the First World War. Based on a book by Graham...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 15, 20208 min read
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