Straw Men, Stereotypes, and Constructive Dialogue: A Response to Mills’s Criticism of the Relational Approach

Chana Ullman, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, Training Psychoanalyst, and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel. Dr. Ullman is faculty and supervisor at the relational track of the School of Psychotherapy, Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and a supervisor at the School of Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University. She is the former chair of the Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ullman is currently the president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book The Transformed Self: The Psychology of Religious Conversion (Plenum, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context, and the relational perspective on psychoanalytic process.
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