Zeina Zerbé

Zeina Zerbé is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. She is also a lecturer at the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. She worked for more than ten years in Palestinian camps in Lebanon as a psychologist consultant and a psychotherapist for local and international NGOs. Thus, she has been invited to participate at the local and international level in conferences, seminars and publications on the themes of trauma, war, refuge and identity issues.

Interested and intrigued by the nexus between political phenomena and their psychosocial repercussions, she initiated in 2013, a personal research that explores the psychosocial and political triggers of the Lebanese civil war. Thus, she notably focuses on various episodes of the Lebanese civil war and the lived experiences of politicians and militias’ ex-fighters. Through her work, she attempts to propose an understanding of unresolved traumas generated by cycles of violence, which, according to her, are partially but deeply related to the current psycho-social and political impairment. Broadly, the objective of her research is to contribute, through the psychoanalytical perspective and analysis, to the work on collective memory and the writing of history.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zeina-zerbé-5003b238
WordPress: https://zeinazerbe.wordpress.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-0722