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Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker and senior lecturer at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa, Israel. He served as Director of the Post-Graduate Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University until 2022. He is the author of twelve books, including prose and poetry.

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Creativity and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Times of War, Exile, and Trauma draws upon decades of clinical experience to illuminate the unique challenges and profound insights that emerge when practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy within a multifaceted social terrain.

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Introduction

1. Listening to a Whisper: Psychoanalytic Social Work and the Ethics of Representing Inner Experience

2. Fiction, Truth, and Authenticity: Navigating the Ethical Borderlands of Therapeutic Writing

3. Threshold Encounters: The Paradox of Beginnings in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

4. The Supervisory Quartet: How Institutional Containment Transforms Psychoanalytic Supervision in Multicultural Settings

5. The Contained and the Container: Erotic Transference as Annihilation in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

6. The Secret Wound of Exile: Literature and Film as Analytic Third in Psychoanalytic Therapy

7. When Fathers Fall Silent: Music as a Transitional Object in Adolescent Response to Paternal Trauma

8. Echoes Across Generations: Psychoanalysis, War Trauma, and Post-Memory in Israel

9. The Psychoanalytic Geography of Exile: Home, Loss, and Creative Return

10. We Do Not Want to Be Ruled Like This: Creativity and Public Protest

11. Beyond Professional Boundaries: Antisemitism and 7th October, 2023

About the Author

Further Reading

Index