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Journal Articles
Scholarly Journals and articles exploring Mental Health and Palestine.
The Journal of Palestine Studies:
https://www.palestine-studies.org
Lancet: Health in Palestine comprehensively discussed in the British Medical Journal:
https://www.thelancet.com/health-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-2013
Key Mental Health Professionals in the Area of Health and Palestine:
Psychiatrist Samah Jabr various articles athttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/6-author/samah-jabr/
including The ‘invisible damage’ of life under the occupation https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20141219-samah-jabr-the-invisible-damage-of-life-under-the-occupation/
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger “The survival and well-being of the Palestinian people under occupation” in H. Tilouine & R. Estes (Eds.) The State of Social Progress in Islamic Societies: Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Challenges (Springer, 2016) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-24774-8_24
Jabr, S., & Berger, E. (2017). The trauma of humiliation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 28, 154–159.
Jabr, S. (2018). Professional solidarity with Palestine: A mental health imperative. Retrieved from http://Jabr, S. (2018). Professional solidarity with Palestine: A mental health imperative. Retrieved from http://middleeastmonitor.com/20181129‐professional‐solidarity‐with‐palestine‐a‐ mental‐health‐imperative/
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger with additional co-authors Michael Morse and Bushra Awidi, “Mental health care in Palestine: Barriers to excellence in The Washington Psychiatrist (2014, Spring). http://Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger with additional co-authors Michael Morse and Bushra Awidi, “Mental health care in Palestine: Barriers to excellence in The Washington Psychiatrist (2014, Spring). https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=26559&i=200453&p=14&ver=html5
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, “Childhood: A Universalist Perspective for How Israel is using Child Arrest and Detention to Further its Colonial Settler Project,” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2015; 12-3: 223-244.
Khouri, Lama, “The First Hundred Days: Indefensible” https://psychoanalyticactivist.com/2017/02/14/the-first-100-days-indefensible/
Rita Giacaman Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh, Abdullatif Husseini, Hana Saab, William Boyce Humiliation: the invisible trauma of war for Palestinian youthhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17568641
Giacaman, R. (2017). Social suffering: The painful wounds inside. American Journal of Public Health, 107. Adcance online publication. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303637.
Giacaman, R. (2018). Reframing public health in wartime: From the bio‐medical model to the wounds inside. Journal of Palestine Studies, XLVII(2), 9–27.
Giacaman, R., Rabaia, Y., Nguyen‐Gillham, V., Batniji, R., Punamaki, R., & Summerfield, D. (2011). Mental health, social distress and political oppression: The case of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Global Public Health, 6, 547–559.
Brian K. Barber, Clea A. McNeely, Eyad El Sarraj †, Mahmoud Daher, Rita Giacaman, Cairo Arafat, William Barnes, Mohammed Abu Mallouh. Mental Suffering in Protracted Political Conflict: Feeling Broken or Destroyed. Link to https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156216
Ruchama Marton, “Human rights violations during Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip: 27 December 2008 to 19 January 2009” in Global Public Health (Link to
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2010.551518).
Martin Kemp (2011). Dehumanization, guilt and large group dynamics with reference to the west, Israel and the Palestinians. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 27. 383-405. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230220005_Dehumanization_guilt_and_large_group_dynamics_with_reference_to_the_west_Israel_and_the_Palestinians)
Martin Kemp (2015). Collusion as a defense against guilt: Further notes on the West’s relationship with Israel and the Palestinians. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 12. 192-222. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282455897_Collusion_as_a_Defense_against_Guilt_Further_Notes_on_the_West%27s_Relationship_with_Israel_and_the_Palestinians
Daniels, Gwyn, Healey, Arlene and Marie, Mohammad (2020) Families in chronically unsafe community environments: Experiences in Northern Ireland and Palestine. In: The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, Systemic Family Therapy and Global Health Issues. John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, pp. 191-214. ISBN 9781119438519
Raija-Leena Punamäki , Samir Qouta & Eyad El-Sarraj Resiliency factors predicting psychological adjustment after political violence among Palestinian children https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01650250042000294
Abdel Hamid Afana, “A Model for Community Care in Gaza: Conclusions drawn from a community-based approach to mental Health Care in Gaza,” Palestine-Israel Journal, 2003; Vol 10, No.4.
Lena Maeri, Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons. In South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 2014. (Link to http://www.academia.edu/15298554/Sumud_A_Palestinian_Philosophy_of_Confrontation_in_Colonial_Prisons
Amer Shehadeh, Gerrit Loots, Johan Vanderfaeillie and Ilse Derluyn, “The Impact of Men’s Detention on the Psychological Wellbeing of Palestinian Women,” Mental Health in Family Medicine, 2016; 12:200-204..
Wasseem El Sarraj: Fathers and Sons in Gaza. The New Yorker, July 26, 2014.
http://(Link to https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/fathers-sons-gaza)
Rebecca Fadil, Praise for Mandela’s South Africa but silence for Palestine, pages 4-8 (Link to
https://www.aapcsw.org/pdf/news/newsletters/aapcsw_winter_2014.pdf)
Hammoudeh, D., Hamayel, L., & Welchman, L. (2016). Beyond the physicality of space: East Jerusalem, Kufr ‘Aqab and the politics of everyday suffering. Jerusalem Quarterly, 65, 35–50.
Marie, M., Hannigan, B., & Jones, A. (2018). Social ecology of resilience and Sumud of Palestinians. Health, 22, 20–35. doi:10.1177/1363459316677624
Marie, M., Hannigan, B., & Jones, A. (2017). Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11(3). doi:10.1186/s13033‐016‐0112‐4
Marie, M., Hannigan, B., & Jones, A. (2016). Mental health needs and services in the West Bank, Palestine. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10, 23. doi:10.1186/ s13033‐016‐0056‐8.
Punamäki, R., Qouta, S., & El Sarraj, E. (2001). Resiliency factors predicting psychological adjustment after political violence among Palestinian children. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 25, 256–267. doi:10.1080/01650250042000294
Ruchama Marton, “Forced Existence,” Mondoweiss, December 21, 2016. Link to http://Ruchama Marton, “Forced Existence,” Mondoweiss, December 21, 2016. (Link to http://mondoweiss.net/2016/12/forced-existence/
Qouta, S., Punamäki, R.‐J., & El Sarraj, E. (1998). House demolition and mental health: Victims and witnesses. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 7, 279–288. doi:10.1023/A:1022995428517.
Yiftachel, O. (1999). ‘Ethnocracy’: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine. Constellations, 6(3), 364–390.
Medical Aid for Palestinians. (2017). Health Under Occupation, Chapter One: Access to Healthcare. [Online]. Retrieved from https://www.map.org.uk/downloads/map‐vol1‐ of‐6‐access‐brief‐final‐web.pdf
The 2016 Special Issue, Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, was devoted to the theme of Israel/Palestine, with the publisher, Palgrave, giving publishing permission to the Network for the following “read only” links to the articles:
Stephen Frosh, “Introduction to special issue on ‘Acknowledgment and accountability in the Israel-Palestinian conflict’” http://rdcu.be/uB1o
Jessica Benjamin, “Non-violence as respect for all suffering: thoughts inspired by Eyad El Sarraj”http://rdcu.be/uCaf
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger, “An occupied state of mind: clinical transference and countertransference across the Israeli/Palestinian divide” http://rdcu.be/uCag
Fakhry Davids, “Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: A personal angle” http://rdcu.be/uCaj
Nancy Caro Hollander, “Trauma as identity: Accountability in the ‘intractable conflict’” http://rdcu.be/uCam
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, “Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel Matrix” http://rdcu.be/uCao
Maya Mukamel, “Assessing the effects of reported torture in the Israeli-Palestinian context: A struggle for psycho-political thirdness”http://rdcu.be/uCar
Web postings on the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish racism, and anti-Israel activism: