Psychotherapy, Society, and Politics

Part I. Theory

1. Politics–Not What You Had in Mind!
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2. Psychotherapy’s Forgotten Political Narrative
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3. The Return of the Political to the Discourse of Therapy
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4. Psychotherapy—Between the Personal and the Political
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5. Theories with an Agenda
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Part II. Practice

6. Politics in Professional Training
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7. “Psychology Under the Influence”: Psychologists Versus Injurious Realities
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8. Politically Sensitive Psychotherapy
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9. Political Attentiveness: Dealing with Political Materials in Therapy
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10. The Alchemy of Psychotherapy: Transforming Discontent into Power
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Part III. The Israeli Case

11. Psychotherapy as a Mirror of Society: The Israeli Context
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12. Political Dialogues: Critical Analysis of the Psychotherapeutic Discourse in Israel
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13. Politics in Therapy: A Survey Among Israeli Clinical Psychologists
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14. Clinical Psychologists Facing Psychopolitical Dilemmas
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15. An Israeli Psychotherapy?
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Keywords: Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Community and Environmental Psychology