A01=David Greenberg
A01=Eliezer Witztum
Author_David Greenberg
Author_Eliezer Witztum
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- ISBN 9780300071917
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
David Greenberg, M.D., director of the Community Mental Health Center, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, is editor of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry. Eliezer Witztum, M.D., is professor in the division of psychiatry, faculty of health sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and director of psychotherapy supervision, Mental Health Center, Beer Sheva.
