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Dana Amir

Israeli poet, psychologist

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Biography

Dana Amir was born and raised in Haifa and attended the Hebrew Reali School. She has a B.A. in psychology and philosophy, M.A. in clinical psychology, and Ph.D in the philosophy of psychoanalysis. She wrote her PhD thesis on The Lyrical Dimension of Mental Space. All degrees were obtained from Haifa University.

Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, training and supervising psychoanalyst, at the International Psychoanalytic Association and at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She is a full professor, vice dean for research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis, department of counseling and human development at Haifa University, and the editor-in-chief of Maarag - the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis (published by the Hebrew University).

Her research, which received the Israel Science Foundation research grant more than once, focuses on the connection between language and psychopathology. Amir developed several psycho-linguistic concepts which map various pathological dimensions: "Pseudo-Language" versus "Concrete Language", "Psychotic Syntax", "Autistic Syntax", "The Chameleon Language of perversion" and "the inner function of the witness". She is also researching modes of traumatic testimony, and the language of the perpetrator.

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