TY - BOOK AU - Greenberg,David AU - Witztum,Eliezer TI - Sanity and sanctity: mental health work among the ultra-orthodox in Jerusalem SN - 9780300131994 AV - RC451.5.J4 G74 2001eb U1 - 616.89/0088/296 21 PY - 2001///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Ultra-Orthodox Jews KW - Psychology KW - Cultural psychiatry KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Orthodox Judaism KW - Psychiatry, Transcultural KW - Mental health services KW - Medical personnel and patient KW - Jews KW - psychology KW - Mental Health Services KW - Culturally Competent Care KW - Professional-Patient Relations KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Juifs ultra-orthodoxes KW - Psychologie KW - Ethnopsychiatrie KW - Psychopathologie KW - Études transculturelles KW - Judaïsme orthodoxe KW - Services de santé mentale KW - Relations personnel médical-patient KW - MEDICAL KW - Psychiatry KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - Psychopathology KW - Clinical Psychology KW - Mental Illness KW - Mental Health KW - fast KW - Israel KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index; 1. To Begin, Just Say, "How Are You?" -- 2. The Initiation of Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -- 3. Changing Attitudes in Cultural Psychiatry -- 4. A Match Is Arranged Between Cultural Psychiatry and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism -- 5. Varieties of Religious Identification -- 6. The Parable of the Turkey -- 7. Beliefs and Delusions -- 8. Visions and Hallucinations: Angels in Today's World -- 9. Nocturnal Hallucinations -- 10. "A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me": Deconstructing the Narrative -- 11. Phenomenology and Differential Diagnoses of Nocturnal Hallucinations -- 12. Normative Rituals -- 13. Ritual as Psychopathology, or Is the Code of Jewish Law a Compulsive's Natural Habitat? -- 14. Religious Ritual and OCD: Is the Torah a "Perfect Medicine" or Does It Cause OCD? -- 15. The Baal Teshuva and Mental Health, or Why the Camel Changed His Burden, and How He Felt About It -- 16. Mental Illness and Religious Change: The Chicken or the Egg -- 17. "A Very Narrow Bridge": Pyschopathology Among Baalei Teshuva in a Fringe Hasidic Group -- 18. Mysticism and Psychosis: The Fate of Ben Zoma -- 19. "Jerusalem Syndrome": Tourists Who Freak Out and Break Down in the Holy City -- 20. Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes Toward Mental Health Care -- 21. Improving Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -- 22. Treating Depression in the Community by the Community -- 23. The Soldier of the Apocalypse -- 24. The Healing Power of Ritual -- 25. Paradise Regained: Breaking Through the Mask of Catatonia -- 26. Betrayal: The Prince and the Wise Man Revisited -- 27. Broken Souls Are Not Easily Mended N2 - Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviours, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is characterised by social, religious, and political tensions. The differences between the ultra-orthodox and secular often pose special difficulties for psychiatrists who attempt to deal with their needs. In this book, two Western-trained psychiatrists discuss their mental health work with this community over the past two decades UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=188085 ER -