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“Denial or Faith?” Therapy Versus Messianism in Preparing for the Evacuation of Israeli Settlements
Author(s) -
Plotkin Amrami Galia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12119
Subject(s) - denial , faith , sociology , intervention (counseling) , judaism , messianism , ethnography , state (computer science) , mental health , criminology , psychology , psychotherapist , epistemology , nursing , anthropology , medicine , history , philosophy , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
This article offers an ethnographic account of the professional activities of mental health practitioners, employed by the state's religious education system. I analyze various models implemented by practitioners for the purposes of preparing pupils for the state‐mandated evacuation of Jewish settlers from G aza and the W est B ank. By focusing on the interaction between psychological and religious‐national cultural frameworks I show how practitioners imbue familiar professional concepts with new meanings and create hybrid models of intervention.