PARADISE REGAINED: "MIRACULOUS HEALING" IN AN ISRAELI PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC

摘要: The articulation of the experience distress in terms prevailing cultural idioms is deemed a crucially important factor effectiveness healing devices across globe. This curative factor, however, not easily attainable multicultural settings where therapist and patient do share same world view or explanatory models. In following case presentation we report culturally sensitive employment strategic therapy with an ultra-orthodox psychiatric Jerusalem. Despite enormous gap between parties, therapists were sufficiently to patient's mythic enable him recast his traumatic experiences mold key background. These amplified by providing myth-congruent metaphor manipulated afford dramatic resolution emotional conflict. what follows discuss setting therapy, background diagnosis course treatment. Following verbatim account last therapeutic session, which self-reconstitution had been completed, synthesized text pertinence hypnotic metaphoric therapies settings.