The Terror Victims’ Families and the Political Psychology of Rehabilitation
Keywords:
Bereavement, Terrorism, Families of Terror Victims, Rehabilitation, Collective Memory, National Commemoration, Recovery from Loss, Therapeutic-Rehabilitative Rationale, Political PsychologyAbstract
The article illustrates the dependence of loss, recovery, and rehabilitation processes in the field of symbolic politics and political culture. This argument is demonstrated while examining the relation between the entitlement to belong to the collective memory and national commemoration (clear social-political aspects), and the recovery from loss (an apparently private and apolitical issue). The argument is examined within the Israeli context with regard to the differences between the families of fallen IDF soldiers and the families of terror murder victims. While the former are rehabilitated by the Ministry of Defense, the latter receive assistance from social security. The article informs us that the identity of the rehabilitating institution affects the effectiveness of the rehabilitative process, and that in Israel proximity to the ‘defense area’ is a rehabilitative resource. It explains the demand of the families of terror victims to be included in the national pantheon as a demand that has a logical therapeutic-rehabilitative background. As such, the article contributes to the understanding of the effect of the political culture at the individual-psychological level.
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