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The Jewish Psychoanalytic Approach of Dr. Ida Akerman

Sarah Ben-Arza

Holocaust orphan psychoanalyst Dr. Ida Akerman’s overriding diagnosis for her survivor patients is “identification with the persecutor”—an ailment not only of Holocaust victims and the second generation but of Jews in exile in general. Dr. Akerman’s therapy consists of building a healthy Jewish identity in which body and soul are united (meaning not split as in the Christian ethos, and not run by physical drives and materialism as in modern Western humanism).

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 Mental Health Service and Charedi Community in Jerusalem

J. Tuvia Buchbinder, PhD

The Jerusalem charedi (ultra-Orthodox) community is tolerant toward its mildly deviant members as long as they do not interfere with others but it stigmatizes both severe psychotics and secular therapists. Dr. Tuvia Buchbinder offers five suggestions for improving the relationship between secular therapists and their ultra-Orthodox patients, based on his experience with 300 cases.

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