Intractable international conflicts: psychodynamic understanding and hope for resolution
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With a backdrop of chronic military conflict in the Middle East, a group of practitioners and trainers in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) with roots in Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran and Assyria (Turkey) provide commentary using this model to understand some factors in the precipitation, perpetuation and possible resolution of intractable conflict. First, we review the metapsychology and treatment methods of ISTDP. We explore the ISTDP understanding of attachment trauma as a driver of self-destructive behavior and interactional patterns that leave populations vulnerable to chronic conflict. We review external factors which impinge upon healthy attachments and family and system wellbeing. We review a way of understanding how attachment trauma at one level of the system may influence other levels of the system and vice versa. Finally, we attempt to consolidate this by considering how intrapsychic processes may influence and inform intrafamilial, intracommunity, intranational and international healing between conflicted parties.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".