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Sanity and sanctity : mental health work among the ultra-orthodox in Jerusalem / David Greenberg and Eliezer Witztum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (x, 389 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300131994
  • 0300131992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sanity and sanctity.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/0088/296 21
LOC classification:
  • RC451.5.J4 G74 2001eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 305 JI9
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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