Galia Plotkin - Amrami
Dr. Galia Plotkin-Amrami is a senior lecturer and head of the Educational Counselling Program at the School of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Galia Plotkin-Amrami’s academic track began with training in anthropology and school counseling and evolved into anthropological-historical research on therapeutic discourse during her PhD and several years thereafter.
She studied the knowledge and practices of mental health professionals in education, immigration, trauma treatment, and resilience-building, analysing the interplay among professional discourses, cultural narratives, national ethos, and ethics, as well as the social factors shaping the emergence of new categories of mental disorders and new professional practices.
Her recent research focuses on the medicalization of childhood, parental subjectivity, educational policy, and stigma in relation to neurodevelopmental disorders and atypical gender performance within school and family contexts.
