Kineret Shapira
Clinical psychologist intern at the Bar-Ilan University’s Students’ Clinic. Kineret is the current coordinator of the Relational Psychotherapy Research Lab at the Bar-Ilan University. Writes and researches within the framework of relational psychoanalysis and its intersections with critical theory, gender studies and comparative literature. Conducts qualitative research focused on intergenerational dissociative aspects of traumatization, as these were identified by unconscious relational communication pathways.
Heftzi Zion Mozes
Gender Studies Program, Bar Ilan University, MA
Many women have to cope with breast cancer at some point in their lives, and many of them will return to health afterwards. There is rising awareness in the medical and mental health communities of the importance of therapy after cancer treatments have concluded. There are various therapy strategies that women choose themselves and that are offered by organizations and private therapists. While the disease and the medical treatments affect the body, psychotherapy uses words and does not provide much space for the body. Coping with breast cancer offers a unique opportunity to integrate body and mind therapy focusing on such elements as self-image, femininity, and sexuality.
In this study I will focus on the embodied experiences of women who coped with breast cancer by participating in therapy that integrated the body in the psychotherapeutic process (methods included in the study: movement therapy, drama therapy and body psychotherapy) to learn about the quality of these experiences and the therapy itself on this group of research subjects.
Michal Almagor
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology Subprogram.
I obtained my M.A. from the Clinical Psychology Subprogram at Haifa University. For the last 20 years, I work as Clinical Psychologist in public and private practice, and as a lecturer and a supervisor at Haifa University.
My work includes facilitating groups and using writing as a therapeutic tool, what led me to my current study.
My study, which I started in 2015, is entitled: "Women writing group as mean for personal development". This qualitative-phenomenological research aims to explore and understand the experience of participating in a women-writing group, and its contribution to the participants' personal development.
This research combines psychological content fields of psychotherapy and groups, with the element of writing, in the context of gender and feminism.
I obtained my M.A. from the Clinical Psychology Subprogram at Haifa University. For the last 20 years, I work as Clinical Psychologist in public and private practice, and as a lecturer and a supervisor at Haifa University.
My work includes facilitating groups and using writing as a therapeutic tool, what led me to my current study.
My study, which I started in 2015, is entitled: "Women writing group as mean for personal development". This qualitative-phenomenological research aims to explore and understand the experience of participating in a women-writing group, and its contribution to the participants' personal development.
This research combines psychological content fields of psychotherapy and groups, with the element of writing, in the context of gender and feminism.
Noam Maoz
I am currently working towards an M.A. from Bar-Ilan University's children’s clinical psychology Program.
I intend to conduct a study, utilizing write-ups of interviews performed by the Israeli military, to identify the underlying mechanisms of bipolar disorder in people who were diagnosed later in their military service.
In this proposed study I will examine the write-ups of interviews of seventeen-year-olds who were later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and compare them to controls. Using pre-morbid data of bipolar disorder provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the mechanisms and causes of social and educational dysfunction in this population.
I intend to conduct a study, utilizing write-ups of interviews performed by the Israeli military, to identify the underlying mechanisms of bipolar disorder in people who were diagnosed later in their military service.
In this proposed study I will examine the write-ups of interviews of seventeen-year-olds who were later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and compare them to controls. Using pre-morbid data of bipolar disorder provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the mechanisms and causes of social and educational dysfunction in this population.
Tal Eckstein
My name is Tal Eckstein and I’m a graduate student in the Clinical-Rehabilitation Psychology program. My thesis deals with Filipino caregivers who have experienced the loss of an employer, with whom they’ve had a meaningful relationship. Many times, a special bond develops between live-in caregivers and their employers. When the employer passes away, the caregiver might experience feelings of loss and grief. The purpose of my study is to advance our understanding of coping with loss in general, and specifically in the caregiving profession. Another goal is to raise awareness of caregivers’ psychological and emotional needs.
Zohar Vidan
I am a first year doctoral student, having previously received an M.A. from the Clinical Psychology Program at Bar-Ilan University.
Research name: Characteristics of the Traumatic Narrative Before and After Treatment in Organization,
Affect and Integration in the Autobiographic Memory.
The research evaluates a short-term PTSD treatment. As part of the evaluation measures,
we analyze different aspects of the traumatic narratives both before and after treatment.
Research name: Characteristics of the Traumatic Narrative Before and After Treatment in Organization,
Affect and Integration in the Autobiographic Memory.
The research evaluates a short-term PTSD treatment. As part of the evaluation measures,
we analyze different aspects of the traumatic narratives both before and after treatment.
Shlomit Rozen
I have been a PhD candidate in the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University since 2008. My M.A. thesis, which I completed within the Gender Studies Program, dealt with the topic of psychosis in women's autobiographies.
The title of my PhD dissertation is: "The Interaction of Life Stories about Loneliness and the Perception of Gender Identity Development." Drawing on life stories of men and women in their forties, this research aims to follow the paths by which loneliness is interwoven into life stories, in an attempt to decode its relationship with perceptions of gender identity development.
The title of my PhD dissertation is: "The Interaction of Life Stories about Loneliness and the Perception of Gender Identity Development." Drawing on life stories of men and women in their forties, this research aims to follow the paths by which loneliness is interwoven into life stories, in an attempt to decode its relationship with perceptions of gender identity development.
Maya Farbshtain
Clinical Psychology graduate at the the Bar-Ilan University. Maya is currently in the process of performing her qualitative research, which focuses on the ways in which elder women experience and express a personal crises evolving around their transition to old age, as brought up during their therapy
Maya’s work is part of the wider activity of the psychotherapy process-research that takes place in our lab. Based on the relational approach, it focuses on the development of the TPA (Two-Person APES), and its utilization in the research of therapeutic processes. As a part of her work, Maya codes transcripts of therapeutic sessions according to the TPA scale, thereby expanding the investigative work on therapeutic processes performed by our lab members.
Roni Adini
Clinical psychology graduate student at the Bar Ilan University. Roni is interested in understanding the role of mutuality and synchronicity in therapeutic processes and her doctorate-level dissertation is titled: “Synchronicity in Psychotherapy; its Role in establishing the Therapeutic Alliance and its Relationship to the Treatment Outcome.”
Sharon Shimshi, M.A
Clinical Psychology Intern at the Student’s Clinic at the Ben-Gurion University, Her current doctorate research focuses on the relationships between innovative moments, TPA (Two-Person APES), and the client's emotional experience and their contributions to outcome variables in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Sharon is interested in the study of therapeutic relationship and the client's narrative and emotional change during successful treatments. Specifically, she is curious on how various narrative and emotional changes occur during successful psychodynamic treatments.
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