Abuse in the Jewish Community by Michael J. Salamon

Author:Michael J. Salamon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urim Publications
Published: 2014-07-13T15:43:50+00:00

Chapter Five

5. Conflicted Therapy, Conflicted Therapists

“If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.”

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Judaism as both a religion and a culture is in many ways similar to the study of psychology as a science, practice and an art – not so much because many of psychology’s early founders and later proponents were themselves Jewish, but because both Judaism and psychology have much in common. According to Manaster (2004) and Rabinowitz (1997), individual psychology and Judaism share the primary precepts of goal-directedness, the concepts of freedom and personal responsibility, equality and a sense of democracy. And, there is no question that Jewish people suffer as much as anyone else from mental illness necessitating the need for therapy and treatment (Levavet al. 1997; Wang et al. 2007). In fact, most studies of the prevalence rates of mental illness, of psychiatric and psychological disorders, are quite similar in Jewish residents of the United States as any other general population (Paradis, Cukor and Friedman 2006). But, there are distinctive issues that may arise when dealing with both Orthodox Jewish patients and Orthodox Jewish therapists. In this chapter we will focus on both and how they impact abuse and treating the abused.

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