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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


Road to Recovery
The Road to Recovery was established by Yuval Roth in 2010. Road to Recovery is an organization of thousands of Israeli volunteers,...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 21, 20201 min read


Book Review: Talking until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica 1941-44
The facts are stark, if little known. Before World War II the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, Greece (Salonica, in its old Ottoman name)..
Rony Alfandary
Sep 21, 20204 min read


Social Injustice Protest Israel, 2011
The 2011 Israeli social justice protests (Hebrew: מְחָאָת צֶדֶק חֶבְרָתִי), were a series of demonstrations in Israel beginning in July...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 18, 20201 min read


To Be a Refugee: a Testimony of a Jewish Bulgarian Family
This article is the testimony of a Jewish family who fled Europe in 1944 and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Rony Alfandary
Sep 16, 202026 min read


My time at Seminar Hakibbutzim
For two years, 2015-2016, I was the director of the Therapy Training Center at Seminar Hakibbutzim. During that time, I reorganized the...
Rony Alfandary
Aug 10, 20201 min read


The ALIEN Film Cycle
It would be easy to dismiss the Alien film cycle (1979-1997) as merely another blockbuster, emerging from the Hollywood industry. True,...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 15, 20207 min read


The Third Man and the Death of MAN
The Third Man is ostensibly a film about split loyalties in a divided city, Vienna, after the First World War. Based on a book by Graham...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 15, 20208 min read


Jacob and Esau - The full story
Some very early background about the conflict in the Middle East. It is said about Jacob, the third in the line of Patriarchs after...
Rony Alfandary
Jul 14, 202010 min read


My Covid
On the 15th of March 2020, also known as the Aides of March, I tool a long walk with my wife along the Mediterranean beach starting from...
Rony Alfandary
May 6, 20202 min read


Lawrence Durrell
Durrell’s star first appeared in the sky of western culture during the late 1950s, with the publication of the Alexandria Quartet, which...
Rony Alfandary
Sep 17, 20191 min read
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