Abstract
With a backdrop of chronic military conflict in the Middle East, a group of practitioners and trainers in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) with roots in Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran and Assyria (Turkey) provide commentary using this model to understand some factors in the precipitation, perpetuation and possible resolution of intractable conflict. First, we review the metapsychology and treatment methods of ISTDP. We explore the ISTDP understanding of attachment trauma as a driver of self-destructive behavior and interactional patterns that leave populations vulnerable to chronic conflict. We review external factors which impinge upon healthy attachments and family and system wellbeing. We review a way of understanding how attachment trauma at one level of the system may influence other levels of the system and vice versa. Finally, we attempt to consolidate this by considering how intrapsychic processes may influence and inform intrafamilial, intracommunity, intranational and international healing between conflicted parties.
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