{"id":8470,"date":"2019-08-13T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8470"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:57:03","slug":"2019-tel-aviv-conference","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/2019-tel-aviv-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Tel Aviv Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Reflections on the Tel Aviv Conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Following the recent 17th Annual IARPP International Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, we invited a number IARPP members from around the world to share their impressions of the conference. Those comments follow, as does a gallery of photos submitted by many conference attendees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/emanuelphoto1014www4letter.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2469\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/emanuelphoto1014www4letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>We would very much like to acknowledge and thank the conference committee \u2013 Tami Dror-Schrieber, Dan Friedlander, Ilana Laor, and Steven Kuchuck \u2013 for their outstanding leadership and organization of what proved to be a memorable, moving, and meaningful conference experience shared by our international community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<b>Christina Emanuel <\/b>(USA)<b>, <\/b>Guest Editor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div 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data-rel=\"lightbox-image-67\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">67<\/a>\n  <div class=\"rsTmb\"><\/div>\n  \n  \n<\/div><div class=\"rsContent\">\n  <a class=\"rsImg\" href=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68-1024x768.jpg\" data-rsBigImg=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-68\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">68<\/a>\n  <div class=\"rsTmb\"><\/div>\n  \n  \n<\/div><div class=\"rsContent\">\n  \n  <div class=\"rsTmb\"><\/div>\n  \n  \n<\/div><\/div>\nPhoto Gallery Slideshow &#8211; IARPP 2019 Tel Aviv<\/p>\n<h6>Reflections by:<br \/>\n<a href=\"#mck\">Peter McKay (Australia)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#gug\">Noga Guggenheim (Israel)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#hir\">Irwin Hirsch (USA)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#ben\">Tammy (Tamar) Ben-Shaul (Australia)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#yad\">Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot (israel)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#cue\">Adrian Cuenca (Mexico)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#pla\">Alejandra Plaza (Mexico)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#cha\">Stavros Charalambides (Greece)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#gus\">Gabriela Gusita (Greece)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><a id=\"mck\"><\/a>by<strong> Peter McKay<\/strong> (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>From the moment I boarded my flight from Melbourne to Tel Aviv, I sensed that it was going to be a special trip. This was my third IARPP Conference and I was excited about reconnecting with those I had met at the earlier conferences. Also, with a number of other Australians to meet up with, I was assured of an enlivening experience&#8230;and this is without considering the rich content of the presentations to be held.<\/p>\n<p>The first plenary <em>To Dream the (Im)possible Dream,<\/em> opened my eyes to the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict profoundly by allowing me to hear different perspectives in an inclusive manner, leading to a yearning to further my understanding of this complex struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Imaginarium<\/em> on Friday evening was a surprising treat, despite the very long day!\u00a0 <em>Theatres of Mutual Imagination<\/em>, the session that I attended, really invited all participants to venture out of their comfort zones and experience a plethora of emotions in a number of roles that we may not have been particularly familiar with. By taking us out of our usual psychoanalyst\/psychotherapist space and inviting us to be in the moment in a different way, we were truly facilitated to embody the conferences theme of imagining with our eyes wide open and to journey on a relational path.\u00a0 As a Somatic Psychotherapist, this session really touched me in a rejuvenative way, amongst the sometimes-heavy theory of the daily sessions.<\/p>\n<p>With the topics of presentations ranging from photography to MDMA therapy to <em>Married at First Sight \u2013 Israel,<\/em> my mind was spinning from the breadth and depth of the work we all do around the globe, and the people we help.\u00a0 The chance to deliver a very practical presentation of my own was an extraordinary honour.\u00a0 To be able to share my experiences with colleagues and friends was a great delight.<\/p>\n<p>As the end of the conference neared, a number of emotions were apparent in me, not the least sadness that this wonderful experience was coming to an end. \u00a0Singing <em>Imagine<\/em> at the end of the conference with friends, both old and new, was a very special way to end together.\u00a0 A huge thank you the Tel Aviv organisers&#8211;the LA organisers have a tough job following you!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mckayphoto0719.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-69\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8664 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mckayphoto0719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Peter McKay<br \/>\n<\/strong>68 La Trobe St, Melbourne<br \/>\nVictoria 3000, Australia<br \/>\n<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;p&#109;&#x63;k&#97;&#x79;&#x40;p&#101;&#x74;e&#114;&#x6d;&#x63;k&#97;&#x79;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;&#46;&#97;&#x75;\">Email Peter McKay<\/a><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermckay.com.au\">www.petermckay.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"gug\"><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Conference Reflections<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>by<strong> Noga Guggenheim<\/strong> (Israel)<a id=\"eng\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"#heb\">(\u05dc\u05d7\u05e6\u05d5 \u05db\u05d0\u05df \u05dc\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>As I write my personal reflections on the IARPP conference in Tel Aviv, my thoughts go back to the words of the Israeli poet Avraham Halfi, whom I cited in the closing remarks at the conference:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Paths do not have eyes to see how deep the dreams of those who walk on them are.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, these words symbolize for me what I experienced personally, both as consultant to the conference co-chairs, and in my collaboration with my friend and colleague, Udi Chen (Israel), in the conference Cultural Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been said about the professional success of the Tel Aviv conference, as well as the many political difficulties and conflicts that accompanied its preparation.\u00a0 Additionally, I would like to share the Cultural Committee&#8217;s process in creating the conference environment that we all enjoyed.\u00a0 First, the Conference Committee\u2019s decision regarding the conference location contributed a great deal to the good atmosphere. We all wanted to create, first and foremost, a sense of generous hospitality, with an open and nourishing feeling of welcoming everyone home.\u00a0 We were also determined to create an artistic vibe from the beginning of the conference, starting with the live music at the social reception, with the spectacular sunset over the Mediterranean Sea, and continuing until the conclusion of the conference when we all enthusiastically sang together the song &#8220;Imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8632\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chenphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-70\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8632\" class=\"wp-image-8632 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chenphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udi Chen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the cultural, experiential programs of the conference&#8211;which we called \u201cThe Imaginarium\u201d \u2013 we saw the importance of exposing the work of therapists and artists who represent the periphery, in order to discover the unexpected that is located at the intersections of social activity. \u00a0In organizing the Imaginarium we approached people from &#8220;The Cabine,&#8221; a group that enables professional advancement and rehabilitation for musicians, actors, stage and production people, all of whom are challenged with mental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of the South Side Dinner and Party\u2019s location and its varied artistic program were\u00a0 designed with a similar sensibility. The artists who performed at the party represented a variety of people and works, some of whom participate or teach in social frameworks that support young people from diverse populations who are socially and economically disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p>It was our wish that the conference participants would carry with them a unique, unconventional, arousing curiosity resulting from a magical and exciting experience.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all those who took part in our dreams and contributed to the success of the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IsraelConfIMG_4849wNGuggenheim.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-71\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8118 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IsraelConfIMG_4849wNGuggenheim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><strong>Noga Guggenheim, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\n<a 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\u05e2\u05ea \u05e9\u05e8\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d5\u05dc\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d7\u05d3\u05d9\u05d5 \u05d5\u05d1\u05d4\u05ea\u05dc\u05d4\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea \u05d0\u05ea imagine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8632\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chenphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-70\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8632\" class=\"wp-image-8632 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chenphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udi Chen<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u05d1\u05ea\u05d5\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d5\u05d4\u05dc\u05d0 \u05de\u05d9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dc\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc 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right;\">\u05d3&#8221;\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d2\u05d4 \u05d2\u05d5\u05d2\u05e0\u05d4\u05d9\u05d9\u05dd<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IsraelConfIMG_4849wNGuggenheim.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-74\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8118\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IsraelConfIMG_4849wNGuggenheim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><strong>Noga Guggenheim, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#110;&#x6f;g&#97;&#x2e;&#103;&#x75;g&#x67;&#x65;&#110;&#x68;e&#x69;m&#64;&#x67;&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;m\">Email Noga Guggenheim<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"hir\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conference Reflections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Irwin Hirsch <\/strong>(USA)<\/p>\n<p>Prior to attending the recent IARPP conference I hadn\u2019t been to Israel in over 30 years, and on this trip, indeed, I fell in love with Tel Aviv:\u00a0 young, vibrant, sophisticated, architecturally rich, and filled with culture, interesting neighborhoods, outdoor cafes, excellent restaurants, and of course magnificent beaches on the blue sea. Much of my time during the conference was spent exploring the streets of the city and sampling Tel Aviv\u2019s restaurants with valued colleagues. I also loved the incredible buffet breakfasts and lunches at the conference hotel overlooking the sea, which offered more aesthetics, more great food, and more time with colleagues, new and old.<\/p>\n<p>I was very pleased to see that, despite the controversy surrounding this conference, it was well attended and filled with interesting panels. \u00a0I was happy to support the IARPP governing body\u2019s decision to hold this conference in Tel Aviv and was honored to be an interlocuter for an excellent plenary panel.\u00a0 Additionally, I was pleased to attend panels featuring personal friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>People attend our conferences for many different reasons, social, educational, and to travel to interesting places, all of which were rich and fulfilling at this conference. I also must add that the conference was very well planned and organized and the venue ideal.\u00a0 Much credit goes to those who, under acute distress, organized this with a steady and very professional hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hirschphoto0215w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-76\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2834 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hirschphoto0215w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Irwin Hirsch, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#58;&#x68;&#x69;r&#115;&#x63;&#x68;i&#49;&#53;&#x31;&#x34;&#64;&#97;&#x6f;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">Email Irwin Hirsch<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"ben\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reflections on the IARPP 2019 Conference: Imagining with Eyes Wide Open<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Tammy (Tamar) Ben-Shaul <\/strong>(Australia)<\/p>\n<p>It feels like my professional life took a turn in 2017 when I attended my first IARPP conference in Sydney. \u00a0And I appreciate the opportunity to reflect here on my now third conference experience, one in which it feels like several of my homes have come together.\u00a0 Arriving first in Jerusalem, my hometown, from Melbourne, this year\u2019s annual Motherland Visit pivoted around the conference.\u00a0 I was grateful for the location: it allowed me five days solo in Tel Aviv, a context of old-time friends, supervisors, colleagues, and my mentor, representing a past I have been painfully nostalgic about since immigrating to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>By now, IARPP conferences&#8211;with the customary social events, informal parties, walkabouts, and conversations&#8211;feel like an opportunity to deepen and clarify friendships with like-minded colleagues and familiar faces. In Tel Aviv a sense of confidence and security emerged, one that is based on an awareness that these friendships will develop in the years to come.\u00a0 Additionally, I had the unique and privileged opportunity to help my colleagues from Melbourne and Sydney, who have heard so much about Israel, decipher some aspects of it.<\/p>\n<p>The months of preparation to attend the Tel Aviv conference were intense. As an active participant in the IARPP Collective forum, and as a friend to Israelis embedded in the organizing of this conference, I did not know what atmosphere to expect. But by the last day, at the session in which my co-panelists and I presented our papers, I felt I was amongst people who were curious about my experience of having emigrated by circumstance from Israel.\u00a0 I felt that the theme of the conference was deeply considered and well set by the organizers. The political elements were addressed as well as could be.\u00a0 Our Israeli hosts had been waiting and wishing to share their generous hospitality with us. \u00a0I expected this of my familiar culture and was not disappointed to feel their devotion, which contributed to a tasty, vivacious, intelligent, and very intense experience.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am enthusiastic to visit Los Angeles, another part of the world where I\u2019ve left childhood memories and friends.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also eager to see how US politics will be considered there, so close to the border with Mexico, and how much we will be able to speak about unspoken things.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the opportunity to reflect on this experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tammyphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-78\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8719 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tammyphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>Tammy (Tamar) Ben-Shaul, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;l&#x74;o&#x3a;&#116;&#x62;&#101;&#x6e;&#115;h&#x61;u&#x6c;&#64;&#x67;&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#111;m\">Email Tammy (Tamar) Ben-Shaul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"yad\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conference Reflections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot <\/strong>(Israel)<\/p>\n<p>I begin with thanking the Israeli IARPP conference committee for the work, thought, and effort they put into the highly professional and perfectly organized 2019 conference. My thanks also to the community at large for the planning, thinking, and hashing-out of the issue of the conference location.\u00a0 Lastly, my gratitude to the conference participants. I felt that they brought with them their faculty of thought, compassion, and open-mindedness that allowed the inextricability of pain and creation, as they exist in this complex State, to reveal itself.<\/p>\n<p>This conference had death as one of its prominent threads. In the opening plenary that brought Said Abu Shakra, Hannah Kehat, and Sammy Smooha&#8217;s accounts of emotional and concrete loss of life and identity; through the moving presentations of trauma given by Cathy Hicks (Australia), Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Austria), and Vojna Tapola (Finland); in Galit Atlas&#8217;s (USA) paper; and throughout Lew Aron&#8217;s memorial, I felt death&#8217;s tangible presence. This presence was thick, I believe, as an enactment and a communication about life in Israel. That is, death exists here alongside the heat of political debate, the self-doubt and the pride, the fears and the guilt, and it also exists alongside the arts, the beach, the feasts, and the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Many panels tackled, in various ways, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I felt that this was in order and important, allowing a potentially explosive topic to disseminate and transform through dialogue and thought. \u00a0Most poignantly this came across for me in the panel &#8220;Collective Dreams; Trans-Identifications and Liminal Belonging.&#8221;\u00a0 Eyal Rozmarin (USA), Francisco Gonzalez (USA), and Victor Do\u00f1as (Chile) discussed the possibility of transcending subjectivity, and I felt that their panel enacted what it had theoretically formulated. One of the themes developed was the way belonging to various non-congruent groups can mitigate the identity of the &#8220;I&#8221;s and &#8220;We&#8221;s that long for, and create, the dangerous coherence of uniformity. Victor, both objecting to the conference&#8217;s location and acknowledging his various group-belongings, did not physically attend, but gave the panel his voice and smile on screen. For me this was a joyful instance of transcending.<\/p>\n<p>For sharing all this, for immersing it in serious psychoanalytic thought and discussion, I send my gratitude and my hopes for the best futures we can, and have, imagined together, with eyes wide open.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gadotphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-80\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8679 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gadotphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;lt&#x6f;&#x3a;&#103;&#97;s&#x68;&#x6c;&#111;&#109;i&#x74;&#x40;&#x67;&#109;ai&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;m\">Email Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"cue\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reflections on the Tel Aviv Conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Adriana Cuenca <\/strong>(Mexico)<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"#span\">(clic aqu\u00ed para espa\u00f1ol)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Attending IARPP conferences has always been an enriching and stimulating experience for me. \u00a0IARPP events always create a space for open dialogue. You always feel included and invited to share experiences that enrich us as human beings, as well as our clinical work. It is wonderful to combine the passion for the work we do with the passion of discovering a new part of the world and understanding its people and the historical and socio-political situation in which they live.<\/p>\n<p>The IARPP conference in Tel Aviv not only fulfilled my previous expectations but also exceeded them. \u00a0It was a very well-organized and warm conference in which we were generously offered a lunch every day that gave us the wonderful opportunity to meet new friends and chat with old ones. &#8220;Imagining with Eyes Wide Open&#8221; was also a very moving conference. We were all together at the Lew Aron memorial event after his recent death, and remembering him in such an affectionate and deserving way was a special moment.<\/p>\n<p>A very special event for me was the Walls and Barriers tour that was organized a day before the conference began. Visiting the West Bank with the group Combatants for Peace was a perfect way to open my eyes and better understand the difficult and complex situation between Israelis and Palestinians, and to listen to the different points of view of incredible people, pacifists and therapists so passionately involved in finding ways to support each other and maintain dialogue between them.\u00a0 Despite the differences, there were many similarities with which I identified deeply because I live in another part of the world in which walls and barriers, racism, hatred, inequality, and insecurity are also part of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>I left Israel with my heart full of the warmth of its people and its landscapes as well as with a broader understanding, gained through first-person experience, of its historical and complex socio-political context and how all this shapes daily life.\u00a0 Thanks to the conference co-chairs for a great event, and thank you all for imagining together and for dancing non-stop at Studio 207!<\/p>\n<p>See you in Los Angeles!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cuencaphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-82\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8631 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cuencaphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD<\/strong> (Tijuana, Mexico)<br \/>\nLMFT (San Diego, United States)<br \/>\n<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#58;&#x61;&#x64;r&#105;&#99;&#x75;&#x65;n&#64;&#x79;&#x61;&#x68;o&#111;&#x2e;&#x63;o&#109;\">Email Adriana Cuenca Carrara<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IARPPlogoSwish28pixwide.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-72\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3217 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IARPPlogoSwish28pixwide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a><a id=\"span\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reflexiones sobre la Conferencia en Tel Aviv 2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>por <strong>Adriana Cuenca <\/strong>(Mexico)<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"#engl\">(click here for English)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Asistir a una conferencia de la IARPP siempre ha sido una experiencia enriquecedora y estimulante para m\u00ed. Los eventos de la IARPP siempre crean un espacio para el di\u00e1logo abierto. Siempre uno se siente incluido e invitado a compartir experiencias que nos enriquecen como seres humanos y, por lo tanto, tambi\u00e9n a nuestro trabajo cl\u00ednico.<\/p>\n<p>Es maravilloso combinar la pasi\u00f3n por el trabajo que hacemos con la pasi\u00f3n de descubrir una nueva parte del mundo y comprender a su gente y la situaci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rica y socio-pol\u00edtica en la que viven.<\/p>\n<p>La conferencia de la IARPP en Tel Aviv no solo cumpli\u00f3 mis expectativas previas sino que las super\u00f3. \u00a0Fue una conferencia muy bien organizada y c\u00e1lida en la que nos ofrecieron generosamente un almuerzo todos los d\u00edas que nos brind\u00f3 la maravillosa oportunidad de conocer nuevos amigos y conversar con los ya conocidos. &#8220;Imagining with Eyes Wide Open&#8221; tambi\u00e9n fue una conferencia muy conmovedora. Estuvimos todos juntos en el evento conmemorativo a Lew Aron despu\u00e9s de su reciente muerte, y recordarlo de manera tan afectuosa y merecedora fue un momento muy especial.<\/p>\n<p>Un evento muy especial para m\u00ed fue el recorrido Muros y Barreras que se organiz\u00f3 un d\u00eda antes de que comenzara la conferencia. Visitar Territorio de Ocupaci\u00f3n con el grupo Combatientes por la Paz fue una manera perfecta de abrir los ojos y comprender mejor la dif\u00edcil y compleja situaci\u00f3n entre israel\u00edes y palestinos, y escuchar los diferentes puntos de vista de incre\u00edbles personas, pacifistas y terapeutas tan apasionadamente involucrados en encontrar maneras de apoyarse mutuamente y mantener el di\u00e1logo entre ellos.\u00a0 A pesar de las diferencias, hubo muchas similitudes que me permitieron identificar profundamente con ellos porque vivo en otra parte del mundo donde los muros y las barreras, el racismo, el odio, la desigualdad, y la inseguridad tambi\u00e9n forman parte de la vida cotidiana.<\/p>\n<p>Me fui de Israel con el coraz\u00f3n lleno de la calidez de su gente y sus paisajes, as\u00ed como con una comprensi\u00f3n m\u00e1s amplia de su complejo contexto hist\u00f3rico y socio-pol\u00edtico y c\u00f3mo todo esto da forma a la vida diaria.\u00a0 Gracias a los co-presidentes de la conferencia por un gran evento, y gracias a todos por imaginar juntos y por bailar sin parar en Studio 207!<\/p>\n<p>Nos vemos en Los Angeles!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cuencaphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-82\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8631 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cuencaphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD<\/strong> (Tijuana, Mexico)<br \/>\nLMFT (San Diego, United States)<br \/>\n<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#x61;d&#114;&#105;&#x63;&#x75;e&#110;&#x40;&#x79;a&#104;&#x6f;&#x6f;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">Email Adriana Cuenca Carrara<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a id=\"engli\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a id=\"pla\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conference Reflections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Alejandra Plaza <\/strong>(Mexico)<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"#esp\">(clic aqu\u00ed para espa\u00f1ol)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>My experience at the Israel conference was powerful because it confronted me with the social situation surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict.\u00a0 This conflict has both macro and micro implications, especially as it impacts our role as relational psychoanalysts and our work within IARPP. \u00a0Therefore I think it was an excellent decision to attend.\u00a0 In particular, the tour to the occupied territory was both troubling and educational because it confronted me with the reality of inequality in that area.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper I presented at the conference I invited us to ask ourselves what we are willing to give up or surrender (Ghent) when considering the narcissism that can allow us to hold positions of power. \u00a0After attending the conference, however, I came to realize that this question is much more complex than can be addressed with surrender alone, as we must also consider and understand the economic, religious, racial, and political aspects of international conflicts.\u00a0 However, a first step is to speak up, to come to the table to discuss these conflicts, and to take the risk of trying to listen and understand.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas also apply to our learning about the association to which we belong, IARPP. We are an active part of a group that invites reflection and even contributes to social change. \u00a0The IARPP Collective listserv is a specific example of a space for us to reflect and listen to others.\u00a0 I feel it is essential to participate in the kinds of powerful and productive discussions such as occurred in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-86\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8629 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg 200w, https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;&#112;la&#x7a;&#x61;&#101;&#115;p&#x69;&#x6e;&#x6f;&#115;a&#64;&#x79;&#x61;&#104;&#111;o&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;\">Email Alejandra Plaza Espinosa<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IARPPlogoSwish28pixwide.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-72\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3217 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IARPPlogoSwish28pixwide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"esp\"><\/a><br \/>\npor <strong>Alejandra Plaza <\/strong>(Mexico)<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"#engli\">(click here for English)<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Mi experiencia en la conferencia de Israel fue impactante por que me confront\u00f3 con la situaci\u00f3n social desde el conflicto Israel-Palestina que condensa una situaci\u00f3n mundial, hasta nuestro papel como psicoanalistas relacionales en lo macro y en lo micro,\u00a0as\u00ed como nuestro trabajo dentro de la IARPP. \u00a0Por lo cual pienso que fue una excelente decisi\u00f3n asistir.\u00a0 Aprend\u00ed del tour en las zonas ocupadas que es verdaderamente inquietante\u00a0porque nos enfrenta a una realidad de desigualdad.<\/p>\n<p>En el trabajo que presente me (nos) hago la pregunta que estamos dispuestos a ceder o a rendirnos (Ghent) a pesar del narcisismo que nos lleva a tener posiciones de poder. Sin embargo, despu\u00e9s de asistir a la conferencia me doy cuenta que es una situaci\u00f3n tan compleja que implica posturas econ\u00f3micas, de poder, con ra\u00edces internacionales, religiosas que siento que es mucho m\u00e1s complejo que ceder, no obstante un primer paso es hablarlo, ponerlo en la mesa de discusi\u00f3n y arriesgarnos a entender y a escuchar.<\/p>\n<p>Por otro lado, tambi\u00e9n implica un aprendizaje sobre la asociaci\u00f3n a la que pertenecemos. Somos parte activa de un dispositivo que implica reflexi\u00f3n e incluso cambio social. Para ponerlo en algo muy concreto: el grupo de los colectives\u00a0da un espacio para reflexionar y escuchar a los dem\u00e1s.\u00a0Es esencial para mi trabajar en estas poderosas discusiones de manera productiva como sucedi\u00f3 en Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Gracias!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-86\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8629 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w.jpg 200w, https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/plazaphoto0719w-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Alejandra Plaza Espinosa, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;l&#x74;o&#x3a;a&#x70;l&#x61;z&#x61;&#101;&#x73;&#112;&#x69;&#110;&#x6f;&#115;&#x61;&#64;&#x79;&#97;&#x68;&#111;o&#x2e;c&#x6f;m\">Email Alejandra Plaza Espinosa<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"cha\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conference Reflections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Stavros Charalambides <\/strong>(Greece)<\/p>\n<p>The Tel Aviv conference was an extraordinary event. Our Israeli colleagues welcomed us and we really felt like we were at home. We Greeks share some common cultural elements with Israelis that were evident at our conference. One of the most astonishing moments during our conference was when Joyce Slochower (USA) began singing to honor Lewis Aron and the rest of the group started singing as if all of us knew Hebrew. \u00a0Also, the Italian and Greek Groups danced together spontaneously just after our common panel!<\/p>\n<p>The large group experience I co-conducted with my marvelous colleagues Michael Chirug and Irene Melnick from Israel were really deep and meaningful for all the participants. We saw how intergenerational trauma is transmitted, such that the previous generation carries guilt for what they are to pass to next generation, with the next generation members of our group expressing their concerns about their position as well.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case in our large group, IARPP has proven to be an egalitarian organization where many diverse opinions can be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank the Tel Aviv organizing committee along with the IARPP board members for offering us something so unique. \u00a0We are looking forward to coming to Los Angeles next year!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stavrosphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-90\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8663 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stavrosphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Stavros Charalambides<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x63;&#97;ti&#x6e;&#x73;&#116;&#105;t&#x75;&#x74;&#x65;&#100;ir&#x65;&#x63;&#116;&#111;r&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#97;il&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#109;\">Email Stavros Charalambides<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to Top<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a id=\"gus\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>My Reflections on the Tel Aviv Conference 2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>by <strong>Gabriela Gusita <\/strong>(Greece)<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 IARPP conference in Tel Aviv was, for me, a special moment in time, a moment I will keep in my heart forever. In attending my first IARPP conference I knew I would get out of my comfort zone in many ways, especially because the location of our conference was disputed and controversial.\u00a0 But I never could have imagined that I would mourn for Lewis Aron the way I did, that I would be so impressed and touched by the uniqueness of Israel and its people, that I would be hugged and welcomed the way I was, or that I would see, feel, and live everything I experienced during these five days I spent in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>In choosing to attend this conference I had to open the eyes of my soul and see for myself the borders, the walls, the buildings that are being continuously built, the old, and the new. I wanted to shake hands with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues.\u00a0 I knew it would be difficult but I also knew that a relational environment is that place in which people can mourn together, share their pain, endure, and always stay committed to their truth. \u00a0Together with my colleagues from Greece and from around the world, I got to know Tel Aviv, a city full of lights and colors with beautiful young people on the streets. I decided to call Tel Aviv \u201cthe orange city\u201d because of its amazing orange sunsets on the sea. Everything I saw and felt was so different and new; my brain was fascinated by every single detail.<\/p>\n<p>During the conference I listened to papers about the movement from fantasy to imagination, about how imagination takes us a step further; I kept notes on how we express pain and fear through imagination, and how fantasy helps us fill in the absence while imagination helps us link it to presence.\u00a0 I listened to people share their narratives of trauma and discuss the ethical responsibility we feel for the other. I enjoyed papers about music, research on MDMA in Israel, and poetry, and attended the morning groups.\u00a0 The panels were so many and so rich that my heart was in pain because I could not be present at all of them!<\/p>\n<p>As a relational psychotherapist,\u00a0 I have faith that our \u201cgood enough relationships\u201d will always help us be\u00a0a united community despite the diversity of our political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>May we enjoy many more conferences together, as a strong united international association!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gusitaphoto0719w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-92\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8630 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gusitaphoto0719w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Gabriela Gusita<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;:&#x67;&#97;b&#x72;&#x69;&#101;l&#x61;&#46;g&#x75;&#x73;&#105;t&#x61;&#x40;&#103;&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;l&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m\">Email Gabriela Gusita<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-75\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/eNews-div-lineNlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Emanuel, Peter McKay, Noga Guggenheim, Irwin Hirsch, Tammy (Tamar) Ben-Shaul, Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, Adrian Cuenca, Alejandra Plaza, Stavros Charalambides, Gabriela Gusita <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[68],"issuem_issue_categories":[15],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bulletin-august2019-vol18no-3","issuem_issue_categories-featured-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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