The Reshaping of Psychology After Gaza War: A Critical Perspective
This paper is intended to present a critical perspective on the reshaping of psychology in the aftermath of the Gaza war. The paper explores how the Gaza war will shape our understanding of several key psychological concepts, including collective trauma, resilience, collective memory, the need for security, the concept of normality, cognitive dissonance, cognitive adaptation, and socio-psychological dynamics of living in a war zone. The paper investigates the need to understand the factors that influence the application and the modification of different psychological principles. Moreover, the paper explores how the Gaza War can reshape psychological research by gaining deeper insights into the human behavior under extreme stress.
Prof. Adnan Farah
Prof. Adnan earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Texas Southern University, USA, and served his one-year internship at St. Joseph hospital-Houston Medical Center.
His work experience mainly focuses on teaching, training, and supervising graduate students in Psychology at different universities in Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain. He served in different administrative positions such as head of the Mental Health Department- at Qatar University, the Head of Psychology Dept., and the Vice Dean of Students Affairs at Yarmouk University in Jordan and the director of student services, at Bahrain Teachers College.
Prof. Farah is a licensed professional counselor by the Jordanian Ministry of Health, a Behavioral Health Consultant by the School of Medicine-the University of Massachusetts, USA, and certified as a “Peer Reviewer in Quality Assurance” for Higher Educational Institution by the UNDP and the Center for Quality Assurance in International Education (CQAIE) and Al-Hussein Fund for Excellence in Jordan.
Prof. Adnan has contributed to the regulation of Applied Psychology in Jordan and in the Arab region. He was a founding member of the Jordanian Psychological Association and served as a founding member of the “Licensing Committee for Psychology Profession” at the Jordanian Ministry of Health, and the founder 1st inaugural president of the Arab Union of Psychological Science.
He published and presented more than 70 papers in a number of local, regional, and international refereed journals and conferences, and supervised many Ph.D. Dissertation and M.A. Theses in Counseling Psychology, and served as an external examiner for Tens of Ph.D. Dissertations and M.A. Theses at different universities in Jordan and Bahrain.