Abstract
These comments center on two phrases repeated in Chalker’s paper. One is the poignant question “Can I get a witness?” The other phrase claims that difference alters understanding. Current relational literature on collective trauma and witnessing is reviewed, addressing Chalker’s question and clinical case.
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Chana Ullman
Chana Ullman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a training psychoanalyst and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is faculty and supervisor at the relational track, the school of psychotherapy, Sackler school of medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and faculty at the doctoral program of psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ullman is past- president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book “The transformed self: The psychology of religious conversion” (Plenum press, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context and the relational perspective on psychoanalytic process. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel.