ABSTRACT
Dr. Shechory-Stahl begins with the observation that similarities are the basis for the emergence of social groups. Usually similarity arouses good feelings and approach, and dissimilarity arouses fear and avoidance. The therapist cancels one session to attend an Israeli ceremony and Majda, the patient, stops contact and never returns – an unexplained abrupt end to an apparently successful relationship and treatment. Despite the political and security situation each lived in, they managed to create a coexistence marked by communication, acceptance, and understanding – an ambiance between them of trust. The affordances of technology in today’s world have created super-companies out of start-ups. The “Horatio Alger” opportunity that technology can provide in a business world that sees disruption more as the opportunity than threat has helped fuel grandiose illusions for many of the today’s designers, the developers, and the young entrepreneurs.
