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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, David, 1949-

Contributor:

Witztum, Eliezer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ultra-Orthodox Jews--Psychology.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Cultural psychiatry.

Psychology, Pathological--Cross-cultural studies.

Psychology, Pathological.

Orthodox Judaism--Psychology.

Orthodox Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is characterized 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. With humor and affection they elaborate on some of the factors that make it difficult to treat or even to diagnose the ultra-orthodox, present fascinating case studies, and relate their observations of this religious community to the management of mental health services for other fundamentalist, anti-secular groups.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

I. To Begin, Just Say, ''How Are You?''

Part I: An Introduction to Ultra-Orthodoxy and Community mental health work in Jerusalem

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

Part II: The Psychopathology of belief and ritual

7. Beliefs and Delusions

8. Visions and Hallucinations

9. Nocturnal Hallucinations

10. ''A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me''

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

Part III: Psychopathology and Religious Return

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''

18. Mysticism and Psychosis

19. ''Jerusalem Syndrome''

Part IV: The Provision of Mental Health Care

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

Part V: Case Studies

23. The Soldier of the Apocalypse

24. The Healing Power of Ritual

25. Paradise Regained

Part VI: Conclusion

26. Betrayal

27. Broken Souls Are Not Easily Mended

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73109-9

9786611731090

0-300-13199-2

OCLC:

923588169