University Press of America
Pages: 94
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5183-7 • Paperback • September 2010 • $35.99 • (£28.00)
978-0-7618-5184-4 • eBook • September 2010 • $34.00 • (£26.00)
Aaron Rabinowitz is a practicing clinical psychologist and author of Judaism and Psychology: Meeting Points. For many years, he was a member of the Psychology Department at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. He also taught at various universities in the United States and is knowledgeable in Jewish law and philosophy, having studied in Talmudical colleges.
Chapter 1 1.Introduction and Brief History
2 2.Judaic Psychotherapy
3 3.Principles of Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy
4 4.Methodology
5 5.Meditation: The Judaic View
6 6.Forgiveness: Critique of the "Sunflower"
7 7.Conclusion: Value in Psychotherapy
A small, 87-page book packed with insight regarding old and new philosophies about a vast array of mental health issues as viewed by Judaic thought. The prominent difference of this volume from other discussions regarding Judaism and psychotherapy is its valuable foundation in spiritual thinking as contrasted to traditional psychologyical thinking....Rabinowitz's book is timely, valuable, and, although specific to Judaism, very beneficial for all psychotherapists....The book allows the reader to examine his or her own religious views in a nothreatening, literature-based, historically accurate manner.
— PsycCRITIQUES