Tolerance – A Concept in Crisis

Avi Berman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst and a group analyst. He is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Avi is the initiator and co-founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and its first chairperson. He is the head of the group psychotherapy track in Tel Aviv University's psychotherapy program. He is a co-editor of Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice (Routledge). Gila Ofer, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst and group analyst. She is the co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and past chairperson. Gila is the founding member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis, as well as a teacher and supervisor at both institutes and in the psychotherapy program in Tel Aviv University. She is the editor of A Bridge Over Troubled Water: Conflicts and Reconciliation in Groups and Society (Routledge).

Part I: The Emotional Challenge of Tolerance: Between Disillusionment and Forgiveness

1. The Unbearable and the Emergence of Disillusioned Tolerance

Avi Berman

2. Tolerance and Forgiveness: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives in Coping with Painful Otherness

Gila Ofer

3. Tolerance and Forgiveness as Survival Strategies

Ivan Urlić

4. The Intolerable Narrative: How Politicizing Forgiveness Undermines Transitional Justice Processes

Anat Hornung Ziff and Tamar Ziff

Part II: Tolerance and Psychoanalysis

5. The Stranger-Patient: Tolerance Between a Jewish Therapist and a Palestinian Patient in Israel

Noga Ariel-Galor

6. The Stranger on Analytic Couch

Martin Mahler

7. Tolerance, Mutual Recognition and Radical Witnessing: Three Degrees of Separation

Chana Ullman

Part III: Tolerance and Group Analysis

8. The Transformation of Intolerance: Political Divide, Enactment and Containment in Group Analysis

Robert Grossmark

9. The Development of Tolerance in a 'Prisoners' Matrix'

Ella Stolper

10. From Dead Ends to Live Exchanges - 'Social Tolerance' in the Analytic Group

Liat Warhaftig-Aran

Part IV: Tolerance and the Socio-Political

11. Polarization on Social Media - A Psychoanalytic and Group-Analytic Reflection on the Failure of Tolerance

Avi Berman

12. Tolerance and the Crowd: An Improbable Duet

Rina Dudai

13. Intolerance and Processes of Fundamentalism in the Context of the Basic Assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification: Theoretical Notes and Clinical Illustrations

Earl Hopper

14. On Being Tolerated as a Minority

Leyla Navaro

15. Tolerance Amidst Racial Trauma: The South African Experience

Monica Spiro and Anne Morgan

16. The Dyadics of Tolerance and the Tolerance of Dyadics

Uri Hadar and Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot

17. Between Tolerance and Intolerance: Political Correctness and Populism

Haim Weinberg

Part V: Tolerance and Intolerance in Organizations and Institutes

18. Beyond Tolerance in Psychoanalytic Communities: Reflexive Skepticism and Critical Pluralism

Lewis Aron

19. The Challenge of Tolerance Between Psychoanalytic Institutes - Psychoanalytic Insights to Establishing New Psychoanalytic Institutes

Gila Ofer and Avi Berman

20. The Paradox of Tolerance: On the Therapeutic and Social Value of Not Tolerating the Intolerable

Uri Levin