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 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 15: Countertransference

What is kept out finds its way in.
Day 14: Transference

What is between us was between others.
Day 13: Intersubjectivity

What is kept out finds its way in.
Day 12: Resistance

What is kept out finds its way in.
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…
Day 9: Shame & Guilt

In Theory: Shame and guilt in psychodynamic theory are distinct emotional experiences that shape how the self relates to wrongdoing and exposure.…
Day 8: Internalization

In Theory: The voices, expectations, and ways of being of early caregivers do not remain external but become part of the inner…
Day 7: Attachment

In Theory: John Bowlby proposed that human beings are organized around the need for attachment and the search for closeness with a…