Group Therapy with Terror-Injured Persons in Israel: Societal Impediments to Successful Working Through |
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Authors: | Orit Nuttman-Shwartz Enav Karniel Lauer Sara Offir |
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Institution: | (1) Bob Shappell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel;(2) Rehabilitation Department of the National Insurance Institute, Israel |
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Abstract: | This paper describes a group intervention with terror-injured people in Israel to show the parallels between developments in the group and Israeli society's difficulties in working through and mourning its experiences of terror. Despite the development of group cohesion and a sense of empowerment, the group members remained unable to deal with the powerful emotions stemming from the experience of terror and continued to cling to their shared identity as terror victims, irrevocably helpless and isolated from others. Without excluding other explanations, we suggest that these difficulties reflect the defense mechanisms employed by Israeli society in dealing with the threat to its survival that is implicit in the terror to which it is exposed. |
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Keywords: | terror victims group therapy social defense mechanism |
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