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"In such moments [of shared danger]\\xa0you work with the present and not the representation.\\xa0In analysis we work all the time with representation\\xa0-\\xa0the transference is a\\xa0representation,\\xa0the countertransference is a representation. They are\\xa0related to our past when such things\\xa0happened. At these moments\\xa0it\\u2019s\\xa0not important if the patient goes over their\\xa0Oedipus\\xa0or not, if he has a good momma or a bad momma.\\xa0In this moment I can say to the patient: \\u201cWow, we are going through something both together, try to talk, I will\\xa0talk\\xa0and you talk, and we will see what is coming up from that."\\xa0\\xa0

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Episode Description:\\xa0The realities of the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas challenge familiar conditions for analytic work. The threat of imminent physical danger to both parties in the dyad pervades the clinical setting at such times as it has intermittently for decades.\\xa0Dr.\\xa0Gampel\\xa0describes years of experience integrating the\\xa0facts\\xa0of external forces into a treatment process that simultaneously honors internal reality as well. We discuss her work with her analytic colleagues in their study group on this topic called\\xa0A Wall Falls Down\\xa0as well as her 30 years of work in Gaza with her Palestinian colleagues. We close with her recounting her family\'s journey from Lithuania to Argentina and then to Israel.\\xa0

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Our Guest:\\xa0Yolanda\\xa0Gampel, Ph.D., Training Analyst, and past president (1989\\u20131991) of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology and Program of Advanced Psychotherapy, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University; Invited Associate Professor,\\xa0l\\u2019Universit\\xe9\\xa0de Paris Nanterre de 1985-1987 et \\xe0\\xa0l\\u2019Universit\\xe9\\xa0Lumi\\xe8re II en 2001\\xa0Lyon\\xa0

Dr.\\xa0Gampel\\xa0won the Hayman International Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults, 2001, and the Mary S. Sigourney Award, 2005.\\xa0

Dr.\\xa0Gampel\'s\\xa0work has focused on social violence and its impact on development and on the therapeutic process. She has worked with Shoah survivors and South American and Israeli victims of trauma. She has also established a training program in dynamic psychotherapy for Palestinian psychologists in Gaza and participated in the training program organized from the summer of 1993 until 2000 through the auspicious of Tel Aviv University.\\xa0

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Recommended Readings:\\xa0

Yolanda\\xa0Gampel, The Wounded Passion: The Inner Experience of an Israeli Psychoanalyst\\xa0bPs\\xa0467-477 | Published online: 22 Oct 2020, in\\xa0INQUIRY:\\xa0Summary:\\xa0A Moment of Theoretical Focus on Passion, Faith, and Truth. Silence and Bearing Witness, the Riddle of Survival. The Background of the Unheimlich. Events in Israel and Their Effects on Psychotherapeutic Working Trough.\\xa0

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Yolanda\\xa0Gampel, The Pain of the Social, Pages 1219-1235 | Published online: 23 Dec 2020\\xa0International Journal of Psychoanalysis\\xa0

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Puget, J., and L.\\xa0Wender. 1982. \\u201cAnalista\\xa0y\\xa0paciente\\xa0en\\xa0mundos\\xa0superpuestos.\\u201d [Analyst and Patient in Overlapping Worlds].\\xa0Psicoan\\xe1lisis\\xa04: 502\\u2013503. [Google Scholar]\\xa0

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Puget, J., and L.\\xa0Wender. 1987. \\u201cAux\\xa0Limites\\xa0de\\xa0l\\u2019analysabilite.\\xa0Tyrannie\\xa0Corporelle\\xa0et\\xa0Sociale.\\u201d [At the Limits of\\xa0Analysability: Physical and Social Tyranny].\\xa0Revue\\xa0Fran\\xe7aise\\xa0de\\xa0Psychanalyse\\xa051 (3): 869\\u2013885\\xa0

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Janine Puget. How Difficult It is to Think About Uncertainty and Perplexity Pages 1236-1247 | Published online: 23 Dec 2020.\\xa0International Journal of Psychoanalysis\\xa0