Sentenced to Life: Reflections on the Inability to Bear Vitality, following the Movie Turtles Can Fly

Senior clinical psychologist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst of The Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She teaches and supervises at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; at The Psychotherapy Program, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University where she is the head of the Primitive Mental States advanced track of studies, which she founded in 2007. She was a senior clinical psychologist in the adults ambulatory unit at Ramat Chen Mental Health Center, Tel Aviv for more than three decades. In 2006 she received the Honorary Mention of the Phillys Meadow Award in New York for excellence in psychoanalytical writing. In November 2008 she received in Los Angeles the 12th Frances Tustin International Prize for her paper 'The dread of falling and dissolving - further thoughts'. In November 2018 she was appointed as Chair of The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust. She has given lectures and clinical seminars in numerous places in Israel as well as in Berlin, Boston, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Sydney, Warsaw, Gdansk, Basel, Madrid, and Calcutta. Her main topics of interest both in her publications and in her teaching focus on the understanding of primitive mental states, void existence, unrepresented states of mind, hypochondria, psychosomatic states, day dreaming, the concept of double, therapeutic excess, and vitality.