Has Therapy Today entered politics? This blatantly bias article is nothing more than five pages of pro-Palestinian propaganda with the occasional psychological sentence thrown in.
Has Therapy Today entered politics? This blatantly bias article is nothing more than five pages of pro-Palestinian propaganda with the occasional psychological sentence thrown in. The article contains no information of any therapeutic value, but overflows with anti-Israeli politics. Many of the ‘facts’ are simply nonsense.
What are the psychological results of growing up around extremist terror groups which glorify suicide bombing? How does living under a barrage of Palestinian rockets affect the people of Israel? The authors did not ask and did not want to know. This article was not impartial, scientific, informative or based on evidence - the very opposite of what is required in a quality medical journal.
If Kemp and Pinto want to campaign on the Palestinian issue, I wish them the best of luck, but this propaganda (politics dressed up as psychological research) reduces Therapy Today to nothing more than a campaign rag.
If this is what the editors consider quality journalism, then I want no part of it.
Cristy Marlborough
A response to ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto |
| "<p>The recent spate of correspondence over the publication in Therapy Today of ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto (March 2009) has raised the ire of many readers, despite the BACP statement that BACP ‘has no position or policy with regard to Middle East politics’</p>" |
Trauma: the unreported casualty of war |
| "<p>In the March issue of this journal, two psychotherapists wrote about the psychological impact of military occupation on the Palestinian people. In response, David Bedein reports from Sderot on the effects of Palestinian rocket fire on the city's residents</p>" |
Palestine: to resist is to exist |
| "We have received an unprecedented amount of correspondence, both negative and positive, in reponse to last month's article 'To resist is to exist'. More of this can be read here (see 'related articles, right)" |
To resist is to exist |
| "<p>Notes on the psychological impact of military occupation in Palestine</p>" |