Volume 4, Issue 3, 5770
Deep Inside Our Jewish Psyche
Most of us think we know what “psyche” means, until we are asked to explain it. I admit that I had to look it up a few times while working on this issue. It’s “the forces in an individual that influence thought, behavior, and personality.” It’s what drives us. Annette Poizner, EdD, chair of the Jewish Health Alliance, recently pointed out to me that there are unique Jewish forces that push us to act in certain ways and all kinds of new methods of healing practices being tested. While I can’t vouch personally for these practices, I found the topic fascinating and definitely worthy of an issue of 614. Hope you do too…
Michelle Cove, Editor, mcove@brandeis.edu
In This Issue
- Three Ways to Cure the Jewish Soul
According to Maimonides, if you fix your ill soul, you fix your whole self.
- Handwriting Meets Kabbalah
How one clinical social worker is combining graphology and mysticism to diagnose mental health issues.
- Why Jews Seem to Dominate Psychoanalysis
Intellectual historians speculate that it was particular Jewish personality and cultural traits that led Jews to psychology.
- Hot Buttons for Jewish Women
Scholar Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz explores four key issues that can not be dismissed when it comes to Jewish women in therapy.
- Which Forefather Are You Like?
Jewish educator Lori Palatnik says each one of us has a personality type based on Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob.
- Volume 4, Issue 3 Resources
A sampling of resources that provide more information on Jewish psychology.
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