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Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi: Psychoanalysis in Palestine

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The Palestinian Authority, Healthcare System, and the Palestinian Authority

Even within the state, now known as Israel there are no Palestinian clinicians. And even when you do as a clinician under settler colonial rule, you have been trained within settler colonial schools. It means that your super supervisor is an Israeli citizen and settler. Even if you're doing clinical work in Arabic, you are translating to your supervisors and Hebrew. You might not get paired with a Palestinian clinician, or have access to Arabic clinical services. The system has serious problems and flaws that are constitutive of it because it's part of a settler colonial regime. So we can start to anticipate some of the inbuilt second tier or third tier aspects of this.

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