Therapeutic Approaches to Families of Young Israeli Soldiers

Abstract

This paper presents a set of family interventions performed in a civilian psychiatric unit with patients who were young Israeli soldiers. The work was done with a psychoanalytic orientation coupled with special attention to the general cultural characteristics of the surrounding society as well as to the particular ones of the families themselves. An experience of group therapy with the soldiers' parents will also be described in detail.

Coping with Acting‐Out in a Psychoanalytically‐Oriented Adolescent Unit

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‘Therapy Contained Suicide’in the Inpatient Treatment of a Schizophrenic Adolescent ‐ Vicissitudes of Countertransference

“…Part of the painful reality that Ofer began to deal with was his inability to serve in the army, with all the related emotional implications (Mester et al 1983;Mester & Hazan 1984). In therapy, his associations of army service led to to memories of the Yom Kippur War (1971) when he was flooded with fears and worries concerning his father.…”