List of Contributors

YEHUDA ABRAMOVITCH M.D. (Israel) is a psychiatrist and a training analyst with the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology (IIJP). He is currently the President of the Institute and the IAAP liaison person for the Developing Group in Romania. Together with Dr. Erel Shalit and Dr. Avi Bauman, he founded the three-year Jungian Psychotherapy Diploma studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Until recently he was Head of the Psychiatric Department at Beer-Yaakov Mental Health Center and the Tel Aviv University Medical School. Since 2017 he has been engaged in private practice in Tel Aviv. Email: yehuda.abramovitch@gmail.com

AIDA ALAYARIAN PhD, (UK) is the co-founder of the Refugee Therapy Centre in London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Aida has worked with families and children in multi-disciplinary settings in both statutory and voluntary sectors in particular with people who have been subjected to torture and other forms of human rights violation. She has explored the relationships between vulnerability and resilience and their roots in childhood and has published extensively in this area. As the Programme Leader of the MA, and Co-Director of the Professional Doctorate in Intercultural Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, Aida maintains her dedication to combine the theoretical with clinical and teaching pursuits. Email:

DANUTĖ GAILIENĖ (Lithuania) is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Vilnius University. She teaches, researches and has a psychotherapeutical practice. She initiated the first studies on suicidology and psychotraumatology in Lithuania leading to the establishment of two research centres at Vilnius University: the Centre of Suicidological Research and the Centre of Psychotraumatology. She researches historical and cultural traumas, especially the traumatizing effects of long-term political repression and intergenerational transmission of tr