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Challenges, Speculations, Risks: Differentiating From Israel
Author(s) -
Abarbanel Avigail
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2003.tb00536.x
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , meaning (existential) , politics , publishing , project commissioning , public relations , psychology , sociology , social psychology , epistemology , political science , media studies , law , psychotherapist , philosophy
What is it like to differentiate from a country, a culture? Is it even possible? This paper describes my struggle to differentiate from Israel. I share both the emotional and intellectual dimensions of my journey. The emotional plane is illustrated with a journal entry, and the intellectual through the meaning that I give to my experiences and the conclusions that I draw from them as a therapist. This paper is not a political statement but it does illustrate, I believe, the close and complicated relationship between what is public and what is personal.