Tahana Psychoanalitit Leclinica U'lemechkar

The Psychoanalytic Antenne for Clinic and Research, Israel                 

Antenne (Registered Association 580319861, Israel)

Tel.: +972-3-5471657, +972-4-6399932

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The Psychoanalytic Antenne for Clinic and Research, the 'Tahana' ('Station'  in Hebrew), was founded in Israel in 1998 as a not-for-profit organization. It is registered in an international network of clinical institutions operating from a Lacanian psychoanalytic orientation in various countries in Europe and Latin America.

Clinical work at the Tahana is guided by two vectors: the first is offering listening, consultation, and clinical interventions in the course of sessions conducted with those who turn to the Tahana, while remaining loyal to a position of providing personal attention. The perennial challenge is to find a preliminary formulation to the problem which led to the first contact with the Tahana as well as a useful solution to this problem.         

The second vector is a movement towards society. Since its foundation, the Tahana has sought introductory meetings with institutions offering services in the spheres of medicine, mental health, education, and welfare, and maintains current working relations with such institutions. This makes it possible for the Tahana at once to transmit products of the clinical work conducted in it and to establish fertile and productive working relations with other institutions in Israeli society. The Tahana is committed to researching and investigating symptoms and clinical phenomena prevalent in contemporary culture with colleagues in such institutions and to offering a unique form of clinical treatment to the public at large.

The Tahana also offers variegated activities including lectures open to the public, symposia, workshops and courses for professionals. These activities take place in Central Israel and in various institutions throughout Israel. This coming year, the Tahana will embark on a new project and extend its activity to Northern Israel, especially Zikhron Yaakov and the area.

In which situations can one turn to the Tahana?

Lacanian therapeutic interventions have been found to be effective and can offer an adequate response to a variety of forms of psychic suffering:

·         Times of crisis and moments of urgency.

·         Situations causing uncertainty, anxiety, depression, and panic.

·         Situations of trauma, of losing one's way in the world, of social isolation and of impulsive behaviors.

·         Situations of crisis in inter-personal and familial relations.

·         Situations in which psychic suffering of whatever form cause obstacles in a rehabilitation process.

What does the Tahana offer?

The Tahana offers individuals who turn to it encounters at three points in time:

A Preliminary phone conversation with a Tahana member, which can lead to a referral.

One to three assessment and consultation meetings with one or more Tahana members for a preliminary formulation of the problem and consultations concerning its future treatment. In case a decision is made to turn to treatment, a referral is made. Consultation meetings with those turning to the Tahana take place on Tuesdays 12:00-15:00 and Thursdays 16:00-19:00, by telephone appointment.

Clinical interventions of limited duration: up to eight sessions of clinical intervention in the framework of the Tahana. The conclusion of the clinical intervention provided in the framework of the Tahana opens different options before those who turn to the Tahana: conclusion or the continued treatment of the problem.

Consultation meetings take place at the Beit Frankfurt Center in the Hadar Yosef neighborhood, Tel Aviv. Clinical interventions in the framework of the Tahana are conducted in the clinics of Tahana members, located in various towns and cities in Israel.

Payments collected by the Tahana for the consultation meetings and the clinical interventions are institutional.

Who turns to the Tahana?

People in situations of distress may sometimes feel an urgent need to talk to someone, to find some recourse. Whether these be children, adolescents, adults or senior citizens, the Tahana may serve for them as an address where they can seek consultation and clinical intervention.

The Tahana is at the same time an address for referral, consultation, and professional discussion for mental health, health-care and welfare functions in Israeli society.

Tahana staff

The Tahana's clinical staff consists of professionals in the sphere of mental health who fulfill the legal requirements for such professionals in the State of Israel.

Tahana staff members include teachers and supervisors at the programs or departments of psychotherapy and/or psychology and/or social work at the Tel Aviv, Bar Ilan, and Haifa universities.

Tahana staff members are members of the GIEP, the Israeli Group of the New Lacanian School of psychoanalysis (NLS). Most of them are teachers or members of the teaching staff at the Center for Lacanian Studies, Israel, operating under the auspices of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII, chaired by Jacques-Alain Miller.

Each Tahana staff member is in a personal process of psychoanalytic formation which includes personal analysis, supervision, and advanced studies.

Tahana founders and consultants: Ernesto Piechotka and Susy Piechotka

Director: Marcela Brusky ToflerPsychiatric consultant: Dr. Liliana Singer

Coordinator of contacts: Revital Reiss

Webmaster (2001 - May 2008): The late Yael Lahav.

Webmaster: Vered Ashboren Notti

Staff: Marcela Brusky Tofler, Vered Ashboren  Notti, Ruth Benozio,  Patricia Cukierman,

Alberto Piechotka, Ernesto Piechotka, Susy Piechotka, Revital Reiss, Malka Shein.

The Tahana holds working meetings and clinical discussions on a regular basis. Professionals from other institutions are occasionally invited to take part in its clinical activity.

Contacting the Tahana:

Call +972-3-5471657 and leave us a message. A coordinator will call you back within the next 24 hours, and will then give you a referral to preliminary consultation meetings with a staff member.

A Tahana staff member is also available for telephone consultation every Wednesday at +972-54-6620043. For Northern Israel, please contact, +972-4-6399932.  

Those fulfilling institutional functions or working at institutions, who wish to make contact with the Tahana may call +972-3-5471657 and leave a message.

The Tahana can also be contacted via the website: www.tahanap.org.il,

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