Can I Be Your Witness? Discussion of Cynthia Chalker’s Paper: Can I Get A Witness? On Being Seen and Heard in a Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment

Chana Ullman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a training psychoanalyst and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is faculty and supervisor at the relational track, the school of psychotherapy, Sackler school of medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and faculty at the doctoral program of psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ullman is past- president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book “The transformed self: The psychology of religious conversion” (Plenum press, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context and the relational perspective on psychoanalytic process. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel.
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