by Christoph Freytag On September 2nd, the Board of PCCA met in Jerusalem for two and a half days. On the evening before, Mira Ehrlich-Ginor and Shmuel Ehrlich invited the Board for a warm welcoming dinner at the house. The board met for the first time in its new composition, with Nadine Tchelebi, Oren Kaplan and [...]
Ph.D. in Psychology, BA and MBA in Psychology, Economics and Business Administration. Clinical Psychologist and Hypnotherapist, member of Ofek, President College of Management, Israel. My interest in Group Relation started in 2000 when I attended for the first time a Group Relation conference run by Ofek in Israel. Since then I was involved in [...]
by Olya Khaleelee Earlier this year I was taken aback to be invited by Mannie Sher to join him and other 'senior' colleagues to run an event for the 'Silver Generation' as part of the Tavistock Institute's 70th anniversary celebrations. Only those over 70 were permitted to take part although as it turned out one of [...]
Dear colleagues, friends and readers, We are pleased to contact you with some interesting items. The letter of our Chair Person, Dorothee v. Tippelskirch-Eissing will inform you about our most recent activities and developments. There is one urgent issue: our next PCCA conference “Exclusion, Resentment and the Return of the Repressed. Europe in a Globalized [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing My first encounter with OFEK has been an indirect one: being a member in one of the so-called German-Israeli conferences, also known under the title: “the past in the present”, in 2004, directed by Anton Obholzer. It was this series of conferences which led to the founding of PCCA (Partners in [...]
by Veronika Grüneise and Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing In July 2017, Ross A. Lazar - psychoanalytic psychotherapist of children and adults and organisational consultant, Bion scholar and group relations expert and member of PCCA's Advisory Board - died at the age of 72. Born in the USA as a “Jewish boy in New Jersey”, as he [...]
by Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing Since our last Newsletter, from February 2016, where we informed you about some of the changes of PCCA, more than a year has passed by. We used this time to adapt to our new situation and to find our way in different ways: There were changes in the PCCA board: [...]
Dear Colleagues, Readers, Friends, It really has been a long time since you have got our last NL. Finally we are ready, with a lot to read: Letter of our Chairperson Dorothee v. Tippelskirch-Eissing. Two Board Members are introducing themselves: Nadine Tchelebi and Christoph Freytag. Obituary for Adib Jarrar by Fakhry Davids. Director's Report: Kliczkow Conference [...]
by Nadine Tchelebi and Christoph Freytag Dr Nadine Riad Tchelebi – Personal Profile I have been curious about intergroup dynamics, particularly those that cause people to split into oppositions for a very long time now. By conscious choice, this interest has fuelled my PhD inquiry and consecutive research projects in the academic [...]
by Fakhry Davids Our colleague Adib Jarrar, a clinical psychologist, organisational consultant and activist based in Ramallah, Palestine, passed away on Sunday 2nd July 2017, four days after undergoing open heart surgery for a condition that had left him increasingly debilitated and frail. Today, Friday 7th July, he was buried in Acca (Acre), the city of his birth, [...]
