A Psychoanalytic Assessment of the Current Phase of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

eral process wherein what is initially condemned by the orthodox gradually moves center stage. In the early 1990s, I conducted a large international survey to look into what psychotherapists and analysts did when confronted with political material in the clinical setting (Samuels, Political; Replies). Space does not permit an adequate summary of this research but two things stood out. First, clients bring such material more frequently than they used to. Second, the clinicians are often completely at sea when confronted with such material. There is still a lack of books and articles on this topic and I freely admit to my own ongoing perplexities in this area (see Samuels, in Reppen; Politics).