This volume contains articles by a prominent rabbi and veteran mental health professionals who have been involved in working with and counseling people from the ultra-orthodox and religious communities for many years.
The topics discussed include the different, and at times, opposing views and attitudes that rabbis and mental health practitioners hold regarding their roles in catering to the needs of the people who seek their help.
Also discussed are halakhic (Jewish law) issues and controversies that arise in the practice of psychotherapy between therapists and rabbis and between rabbis themselves.
Anecdotal examples are also brought describing the psychological wisdom and sophistication of rabbis and their productive and effective contribution and involvement with psychotherapists in psychological treatment.
Rabbis and mental health professionals, religious and secular, as well as lay people interested in the interface of Judaism and mental health/psychotherapy, will find the book informative, enlightening and a worthwhile read.
--- This slim book like the four previous ones was sponsored by Nefesh Israel, an organization made up of orthodox mental health professionals and deals with the interface between Judaism/halacha and psychology/psychotherapy.
The topics discussed in this book are highly sensitive, controversial, important and very much relevant to rabbis and religious mental health practitioners and the authors are commended in expressing their views in an outright and clear manner.
This stimulating and thought provoking book is highly recommended.
(Leah Abramowitz, M.
, chairperson, Nefesh Israel) --- The dual conflictual and collaborative relationship between rabbis and mental health professionals is presented in a respectful manner by a scholarly rabbi and prominent mental health professionals.
The book reviews the diverse rabbinical attitudes to consulting with mental health professionals as well as current controversies such as cross-gender thera.
Mondial Rabbis and psychologists: partners or adversaries, paperback/seymour hoffman
