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Mendel Horowitz
Mendel Horowitz, MS, CGP, maintains a private practice in Jerusalem and virtually, offering individual and group therapy, clinical supervision, and professional training groups. Certified by the International Board for Certification of Group Psychotherapists, he also serves as Director of Clinical Development at Kav L’Noar and on the editorial staff and Public Outreach Committee of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Day 21: Repetition Compulsion
In Theory: One of Sigmund Freud’s most enduring clinical observations is that patterns repeat, not deliberately or consciously, but with regularity that…
Day 20: The True & False Self
In Theory: D. W. Winnicott distinguished between two modes of selfhood within the object relations tradition. The True Self refers to spontaneous…
Day 19: Afterwardsness
In Theory: Psychodynamic thought proposes that experience does not always acquire meaning at the moment it occurs, but only afterward under different…
Day 18: Rupture & Repair
In Theory: Developmental research on attachment and psychodynamic observation show that the health of a relationship is not determined by the absence…
Day 17: Enactment
In Theory: An enactment in contemporary psychodynamic theory occurs when something that cannot be spoken, such as a feeling, a relational dynamic,…
Day 16: Mirroring
In Theory: Heinz Kohut, a central figure in self psychology within psychodynamic theory, proposed that a basic human need, beginning in infancy…
Day 11: Splitting
In Theory: Splitting in the object relations tradition, most closely associated with Melanie Klein, is an early form of mental organization in…
Day 10: Defense Mechanisms
In Theory: Defense mechanisms in the psychodynamic tradition, first articulated by Sigmund Freud and later systematized by Anna Freud, are unconscious processes…
