"For more than ten years, I have been observing the therapeutic culture within which I operate, in treatments, workshops, in the fluid absorption of professional material that includes reports from patients and therapists of all kinds – and I see a dead end: frustrated patients, and therapists confused and torn in their loyalties between the patient and the authorities and organizations to which they belong. They are educated in their profession in a way that ranges between glorifying the past and glorifying marketing and authority – instead of dealing with the questions: Who is the contemporary patient for whom the treatment is intended? How should we meet him? In reality, there stands, too often, the empty chair of the patient."

This is how Nitza Yarom's book "A Compass for Therapy in Our Time - The Social as the Personal in the Therapy Room" opens, published this year. Yarom offers a compass of a therapeutic core around which all knowledge or techniques in the act of therapy will revolve. In the eleven chapters, she presents what she sees as the components of the therapeutic core for our time: identifying the patient of the era and identifying the components of the therapeutic core necessary for treating him: interest, listening, self-listening, the need for human dialogue with the patient, the need for physical and mental attention as a human whole, with the therapist playing a dual role - participant and listener, and the therapeutic framework and therapeutic tools.

In this conversation, Aner Guvrin and Sharon Ziv Beyman will talk with Nitza Yarom about the need for a therapeutic compass for contemporary therapists, the therapeutic core, her criticism of treatment methods presented as the "cutting edge" of psychological therapy and, on the other hand, the conservatism in the field, as well as the Zoom revolution in psychotherapy. Through the use of clinical examples, Nitza Yarom will attempt to demonstrate the various applications of the therapeutic core in significant areas of life and important therapeutic issues such as blowups in therapy, an exhausted therapist, a patient who is difficult to reach, and separations from patients.

Dr. Nitza Yarom, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Author of the books: "Body, blood and sexuality"; "The body speaks"; "The hysteric in me, the hysteric among us"; "Psychoanalysis in our souls"; "Body stories"; "Body languages"; "Matrix of hysteria"; "Psychic threats and somatic shelters; Compass - relationships in our time; "Compass for proper parenting"; "Compass for proper relationships"; "Compass for proper care in our time".