Journal of Forensic Research

School of Clinical Social Work, Ashkelon Academic College, 18/21 Boier st. Tel Aviv, Israel

Publications

• Case Study   
  Collapse of the Inner Home and Establishment of the Self
  Author(s): Noga Levine Keini*
  
  The article sheds light on setting up home as a metaphor for the gradual process of establishing the self through the home. It examines, from the psychoanalytical viewpoint, the ability to internalize the home with all its accoutrements: physical, mental, spiritual, intrapsychic and interpersonal. The forces strengthening the inner home are examined, alongside those threatening to bring it down. The case of Yael, aged 9½, is presented. In the course of therapy, to which Yael arrived with a vulnerable, fragile self, she built structures which were destined to collapse over and over again, thus reenacting the failure in setting up home. In time, a shift took place, with the initial roles of victim and perpetrator being replaced with a much more reciprocal and committed relationship. Yael's sense of self was strengthened, alongside her capacity to distinguish b.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2157-7145.2025.16.647

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