When Language Meets Traumatic Lacuna: The Metaphoric, the Metonymic, and the Psychotic Modes of Testimony

Dr. Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, poetess and literature researcher. She is the author of five poetry books and two psychoanalytic nonfiction books. She is the winner of many national and international prizes: The Adler National Poetry Prize (1993); The Bahat Prize for Academic Original Book (2006); The Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize (2011); The Prime-Minister Prize for Hebrew Writers (2012); The IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) Sacerdoti Prize (2013); Nathan Alterman poetry price (2013); Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award (IFPE). Her book Cleft Tongue was published by Karnac (2014), and another book entitled On the Lyricism of the Mind, was recently published by Routledge (2016). She is a faculty member of the Department of Human Counseling and Development, Haifa University, and practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
CONTACT Dana Amir Department of Counselling and Human Development, University of Haifa, Shderot Hanassi 54, Haifa, 34643, Israel.