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A decade\\xa0ago\\xa0I started to\\xa0tell my\\xa0colleagues that there is something\\xa0big here in the therapeutic room\\xa0and if we don\\u2019t talk about it in the room and\\xa0in\\xa0supervision there\\u2019s something we are missing here.\\xa0We are not talking\\xa0just\\xa0about two people who can speak only on the humanistic level\\xa0-\\xa0just to be human one to the other or a good object one to the other.\\xa0We\\xa0have to\\xa0talk about what is going on outside and how every one of\\xa0us\\xa0in this therapeutic dyad is coming from a threatening group to the other.\\xa0\\xa0

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Episode Description:\\xa0We begin by appreciating how ethnic affiliations have a presence in the therapeutic encounter. Whether therapist/patient cultural allegiances are\\xa0manifestly\\xa0similar or different, when the therapeutic space allows for exploration\\xa0internal meaning can be revealed. These possibilities become fraught when the external representations of these ethnicities are at\\xa0actual\\xa0war. Dr.\\xa0Srour\\xa0describes working through his countertransference struggles which he felt was essential in coming to empathize with the internal experiences of his Jewish patients. He characterizes this as \'political countertransference\' and feels that the freedom to speak of outside realities in the treatment dyad is an essential aspect of a deepening psychotherapy.\\xa0

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Our Guest:\\xa0Dr. Roney\\xa0Srour, a Palestinian-Israeli clinical and educational psychologist\\xa0is\\xa0married and\\xa0the\\xa0father of 2 sons\\xa0who lives\\xa0in Haifa\\xa0and works\\xa0as a clinical psychologist in the Israeli\\xa0Ministry of\\xa0Health and in private practice. Dr.\\xa0Srour\\xa0teaches and researches \\u201cpsychodynamic psychotherapy with cultural and political competence\\u201d\\xa0at the University of Haifa\\xa0and\\xa0is a lecturer\\xa0and\\xa0supervisor in two post-graduate programs of psychotherapy. He is an activist in the field of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\\xa0

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Recommended Readings:\\xa0

Gorkin, M. (1986).\\xa0Counter-Transference\\xa0in Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy: The Example of Jewish Therapist and Arab Patient.\\xa0Psychiatry, 49, 69-79.\\xa0

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Srour, R. (2015) Transference and Countertransference Issues During Times of Violent Political Conflict: The Arab Therapist-Jewish Patient Dyad,\\xa0Clinical Social Work Journal,\\xa043(1).\\xa0

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Baum, N. (2011). Issues in Psychotherapy with Clients Affiliated with the Opposing Side in a Violent Political Conflict.\\xa0Clinical Social Work Journal, 39, 91-100.\\xa0

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Altman, N. (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race.\\xa0\\u202fPsychoanalytic Dialogues,\\u202f10(4), 589-605.\\xa0

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Ghassan Kanafani,\\xa0Men in the Sun\\xa0Lynne\\xa0Rienner\\xa0Publishers 1999\\xa0\\xa0