Between national ideology and Western therapy
On the emergence of a new "culture of trauma" following the 2005 forced evacuation of Jewish Israeli settlers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2394932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Galia Plotkin-Amrami (0000-0003-3523-001X, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-67 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transcultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363461513479760 |
| PMID | 23589480 |
| OpenAlex | W1986001168 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
The Israeli government's decision to evacuate Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank introduced a new category of at-risk individuals to Israeli mental health discourse, namely victims of what has come to be termed the "trauma of the Disengagement." This category refers to Jewish settlers who are motivated by a religious-Zionist ideology and who define their role as fulfilling the divine command of "redeeming the Land of Israel." Based on an analysis of the professional activities of the Mahout Center, a mental health service that aimed to mitigate the "trauma of the Disengagement," this article examines how the Disengagement experience was constructed in the rhetoric and practices of mental health practitioners identified with the religious-Zionist enterprise. It explores the specific notion of trauma and the characteristics of the resilient self, as fashioned according to the distinctive "culture of trauma" that has been developed in the Mahout Center in the context of the Disengagement. This "culture of trauma" is based on a unique alliance between the Western therapeutic model of trauma and the ideological and theological imperatives of religious Zionism
Alliance · Antisemitism · Disengagement theory · Ideology · Judaism · Mental health · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Zionism · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Tense Past
Saving the Modern Soul
Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Distant Trauma
The ?Mythological Sabra? and Jewish Past
War-Related Loss and Suffering in Israeli Society
Trauma and Memory
The memorial ceremony in Israeli schools
Freud Comes to Palestine
Freud in Zion
The Harmony of Illusions
The triumph of the therapeutic
Why Does Fear Override Hope in Societies Engulfed by Intractable Conflict, as It Does in the Israeli Society
Culture in Action
From badness to sickness
From 'Russianness' to 'Israeliness' through the landscape of the soul
Surviving a Distant Past
The Politics of Culture in Humanitarian Aid to Women Refugees Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence
Trauma Stories
Cacophony of Voices
Who Will Care for the Caretaker's Daughter
Local Narratives of Distress and Resilience
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |