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How Do We Even Talk about Palestine and Israel?: One Group’s Experience in Unspoken Territory

Editor : Nadia Taysir Dabbagh, Editor : Cathy Troupp, Editor : Mona Freeman, Editor : Kathryn Hollins

About the Editor(s)

Nadia Taysir Dabbagh is an Anglo-Palestinian child psychiatrist who trained at the Tavistock in the 2000's. Dubai Health's Chief of Division for Paediatric Mental Health in the UAE, she led Dubai's first Mental Health Strategy (2017) and Palestine's first Ministry of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Strategy, 'Every child deserves a childhood, every child deserves a future;' a Royal College of Psychiatrists and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) project (2023). She wrote Suicide in Palestine: Narratives of Despair based on 1990's fieldwork. Nadia's father and father-in-law, both born in Palestine, were ten-year-old 'Nakba' refugees. Her husband's extended family live (and die) in Gaza.

Cathy Troupp is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Clinic 2001-2005, having started her career as a staff writer on Cosmopolitan Magazine. Cathy worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital and was a leader of the NHS England funded National Training in Eating Disorders (2015-18), and later, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the National Gender Identity Development Service. Cathy is currently Clinical Lead at the Refugee Council. Her own mother came to England as a refugee in 1939 on the Kindertransport. As a second-generation survivor of the genocide of the Jews, Cathy has long been a passionate activist for Palestine.

Mona Freeman is a British-born child psychiatrist of Pakistani heritage. She trained at the Tavistock and stayed on as a consultant until 2016. She was awarded the Laughlin Prize in 2003. She has written extensively for the public about mental health, contributing to books including The Young Mind (2009) and was a previous Series Editor of the Mental Health and Growing Up factsheets produced by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She now works in independent clinical practice.

Kathryn Hollins is a Tavistock trained child psychiatrist and psy­chotherapist. As a student she volunteered in India and Cameroon, further developing her understanding of global inequalities with a Medical Anthropology Masters and travelling as a Churchill Fellow. Her commitment to equality began sharing childhood with her disabled brother, World War II-injured grandfather and changemaker parents. Together with a local authority team she leads collaborative work with health, education, social care and voluntary sector colleagues to build trusted relationships with babies, children and families and develop healthier, happier communities. In her clinical practice, she offers specialist psycho­therapy and consultation during pregnancy, parenthood and family life.