Analysis in the shadow of terror: Securing the temenos, treating the “enemy,” and surviving creatively

Henry Abramovitch, “Analysis in the Shadow of Terror: Securing the Temenos, Treating the in the Shadow of Terror: Securing the Temenos, Treating the “Enemy”, and Surviving Creatively,” in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 2005, 25:1, 1-8. The article describes the clinical impact of working in the shadow of terror in Israel. It discusses how terror impacts on the temenos and the loss of psychic boundaries between victim and victimizer. Aspects of analysis with a Palestinian woman are presented in terms of “recollectivization,” “telling secrets to the enemy,” and new ways of attaining a therapeutic alliance. Other cases of terror victims are presented in terms of a creative survivor mission. We are only beginning to understand the long term impact of living and working under the shadow of violence.