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The Road to Recovery hosting Hebron Families at Kibbutz Hatzerim
On December 16th, 12 families from Hebron were hosted by Kibbutz Hatzerim. RTR volunteers drive these children to life saving treatments...
Rony Alfandary
Dec 17, 20221 min read


24 hours in Haifa, July 2022
Udan, Bookseller, 139 Hanasee Road, est. 1930 Carmella Boutique Hotel, a former residence of the Templers, est. early 19th cent. The...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 22, 20221 min read


Legacy and New Perspectives - Amcha June 2022 (Heb)
The full lecture can be seen here מסע פסיכואנליטי בנבכי פוסט זיכרון: האל-ביתי והתגלותו בין ליאונרד כהן מקנדה לליאון כהן מסלוניקי הרצאה...
Rony Alfandary
Jun 29, 20221 min read


A STUDY OF SOME VISUAL REPRESETATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
This is a study, written in 1986, of some visual representations of the Holocaust which I analyze phenomenologically and deal with some...
Rony Alfandary
Jun 13, 202256 min read


Goat Herding with Youssouf at The Jordan Valley
A day spent with the Bedouin community of the Jordan Valley. Walking the goats over the hills in a scenery that has not changed. Well, at...
Rony Alfandary
Jan 14, 20221 min read


C.20 - Book News: Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: the Salonica Cohen family
Published at C.20 - An International Journal, The Durrell Library of Corfu, Editor: Richard Pine December, 2021 The book was published by...
Rony Alfandary
Dec 18, 20219 min read


Holocaust survivor reflects on antisemitism rise 83 years after Kristallnacht
By Emma Barnett Published on NBC, 10th November, 2021 Ruth Zimbler was just 10 years old when she watched the Nazis burn down her...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 11, 20212 min read


Zoom Interviews during Covid-19
What to do with the social distancing imposed upon us? Rather than just moan and groan, I have decided to seize the moment and started a...
Rony Alfandary
Apr 30, 20215 min read


We do not want to be ruled like this - The Civil Protest in Israel 2020-2021
A Hebrew version of this essay was published by Alaxon on December 2020. A year of public protest all over Israel began in June 2020. I...
Rony Alfandary
Feb 10, 202116 min read


Writing the Unwritable – an Inter-disciplinary Approach to Holocaust Postmemory
An on-line conference, organized by Dr. Rony Alfandary and Prof. Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, was held under the auspices of The Finkler...
Rony Alfandary
Jan 9, 202123 min read


Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts
Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts, published on July 2021 by Routledge. I have been writing and lecturing about the Cohen...
Rony Alfandary
Dec 22, 20208 min read


Being an Oppressor... and changing that...
In 1985, I had my first article published by Self & Society, an International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, edited by John Rowan. It...
Rony Alfandary
Dec 17, 20202 min read


Ethical Considerations in Social Work with People with Mental Health Issues
INTRODUCTION "Little if anything that the helping professions do for their patients and clients takes place outside a context of the...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202020 min read


Humanistic Psychology
INTRODUCTION Humanistic Psychology has developed as a movement in psychology from the twenties onwards in Europe and in the USA as a...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202019 min read


Erving Goffman and Asylum
INTRODUCTION Although written thirty years ago, Erving Goffman's Asylums, as well as his other copious writings, is still the subject of...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202013 min read


Community Care and the Feminist Perspective
INTRODUCTION "A feminist approach should mean more than putting women in the picture. It means criticising and renewing conceptual...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202015 min read


Bullying - The Psychological, Sociological and Cultural Aspects
WHY BULLYING The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit in Nottingham, U.K., (Formerly Child and Family Therapy unit), offer a service to...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 202018 min read


Branco Weiss 2010-2012
During 2010-2012 I was appointed to be part of the national board of Branco Weiss school network. My role was to supervise the...
Rony Alfandary
Nov 1, 20201 min read


Dreaming in Alexandria: a Psychoanalytical Study of Dreams in The Alexandria Quartet
This is the English Abstract of an essay published in Hebrew at MA'ARAG, The Israeli Annuals of Psychoanalysis in 2012 This...
Rony Alfandary
Oct 18, 20204 min read


Writing about Psychotherapy
Writing and psychotherapy dwell on the same plane for me - both pursue the same goal, which is to make life richer and more creative. I...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 30, 20207 min read
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