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| Titre : |
The silence of psychologists. Why does not there exist a 'post-Zionist' psychology? |
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| Numéro : |
19 |
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| Année : |
2002 |
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| Volume : |
VIII |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Dan BAR-ON |
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| Résumé : |
Unlike certain Israeli historians or sociologists who have developed a Post-Sionist critical approach, only a few signs of a comparable critical trend are to be found in Israeli psychologists. This is particularly worrying in the light of the recent transition from war to the peace process. This transition has been the source of many new social and individual dilemmas which would benefit from an open debate within social and clinical psychology. This essay tries to report on this lack by linking it to its historical, political and cultural roots. The historical aspects concern the influence of the European and American psychological traditions. Two remarks of a political kind are presented:
Israeli psychologists, because of their involvement in the military field and their acceptance of the Sionist security claims, tend to belong to the dominant political trend (Gergen, 1973; 1989).
A hyper-politicised atmosphere has forced Israeli psychologists to adopt a position of neutrality and objectivity. This has provided a convenient rationalisation of an apolitical position, in particular in so far as Israeli political polarisation during the 1980s and 1990s was perceived as a threat for the professional authority of psychologists.
Culturally, the psychologists, like the European social milieux from which most of them have come, have tended to adopt the North-American individualist tradition, as a reaction to the powerful collectivist trend which dominated Israeli society in its early years. This may explain the weakness and the slowness of their social reaction, in terms of humanism, feminism and constructivism.
Exceptions to this general tendency are revealed and we will explore the question: how to reach a change in Israeli psychology such that it becomes more politically sensitive and critical. It may be supposed that this reflection has some pertinence for the development of a political psychology in other societies, particularly in those that experience a period of transition of values, or which suffer violent and lasting social conflicts. |
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| Pages : |
45 - 66 |
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| DOI : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2002-19-page-45.htm |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
psychologist, post-Zionist, Zionist, psychology |
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| Citations : |
4 |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2002-19-page-45.htm |
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