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Dror Green (born 1954) (Hebrew: דרור גרין) is a psychotherapist and author. He developed the method of Emotional Training, based on his concept of human nature. Although he was descended from a family that had lived in Israel for ten generations, he did not identify with Zionism, as he writes in the introduction to his book, ''ABC of Israeli Apartheid''.〔Dror Green, ABC of Israeli Apartheid, 2011, p. 14.〕 ==Biography== Green was born in Jerusalem in 1954. As a thirteen-year-old boy he witnessed Israeli soldiers destroying a Palestinian neighborhood near the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. As a soldier in the war of 1973 between Israel, Syria and Egypt, he witnessed the Israeli army destroying villages before withdrawing from occupied Syrian territory. He was wounded in the war and suffered from PTSD, and the experience of trauma and war crimes influenced his personal and professional life, as described in his ''Back to Crew No. 4''.〔() The never-ending story, Book review: Dror Green's 'Back to Crew No. 4]〕〔() Speak, memory: an interview with Dror Green〕 He holds an MA and PhD in psychotherapy (Regent's College, City University, London). He studied music composition with Mark Kopytman at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, and at the same time finished his BA in musicology and philosophy in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the director of the 'Jerusalem Design Workshop' and the CEO of 'Israeli Music Publication'. He edited a poetry periodical, and worked as an art curator. Later he founded 'Books, Publishers', and published the first Hebrew translation of Freud's case studies and books by Israeli psychologists and poets, including the last book of the poet Yona Wallach. He wrote about 20 children's books, some of which became bestsellers for many years. His prose was also published by the major Israeli publishers, but when he started to write about the occupation, the reaction was less positive. The distribution of the Arabic translation of his book, ''The Intifada Tales'',〔Dror Green: The Intifada Tales, translated by Salman Masalha.〕 in the occupied territories was forbidden by the army, and the main bookstore chain refused to sell the book. Later, his books ''ABC of Israeli Apartheid'' and ''The Vision of Dual Nationality'' were denounced by the Israeli media. He invented TRIXXY, a mind game, that was sold worldwide and enabled him to move to London in 1995 and finish his MA in psychotherapy at Regent's College, City University London. He is a member of the UKCP. In 1998 he came back to Israel]. He gave lectures to professionals and to the public about his new concepts of psychotherapy, taught and supervised therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and family doctors in various schools of psychotherapy. He founded 'Cogito School of Psychotherapy', published some books for professionals and for the public and edited the first Hebrew edition of Freud's case studies. In 2005 he finished his PhD in psychotherapy. In 2008 he left Israel and moved with his family to a small village near the town of Kyustendil in Bulgaria, where he founded the 'Institute of Emotional Training'. His book, ''Emotional Training'', was published in Hebrew and English in 2011. In his book he presents his new method, based on a new concept of human nature that does not separate between body and mind, that enables us to identify and improve our inborn emotional skills.〔 Dror Green, Emotional Training: the art of creating a sense of a safe place in a changing world. Books, Publishers, and the Institute of Emotional Training, 2011. p. 13.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dror Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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