Adding a Social Perspective: The Advantages of Group Analysis as a Complementary Location of Cure

Clinical psychologist and group analyst in private practice, and Past President of the Group Analytic Society (International), the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis, and the Israeli Association for Group Psychotherapy. He is also a Vice-President and cofounder (together with Vamik Volkan and Lord Alderdice) of the International Dialogue Initiative. He is also a teaching group analyst at the Zurich Institute for Group Analysis, and works regularly with institutes in Ukraine, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Russia, and China. His combined small/large groups model, called the Sandwich model—once applied mainly in conflict dialogue meetings between Arab and Jewish citizens, troubled communities, and Jews and Germans (“Voices After Auschwitz”)—is now being used to assist Ukrainians terrorized by war for the last 3.5 years. He writes on group approaches to working with dreams (dreamtelling); psychopathology; the Soldier’s Matrix (societies of individuals in war); and the nature of unconscious social processes.