Author: Greenberg, David & Witztum, Eliezer
Title: Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work Among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (2001). org. boards. 21x14cm, x, 389 pp, In a lightly soiled dustwrapper.. Minor rubbing. Light binding edge stain. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: An Introduction to Ultra-Orthodoxy and Community Mental Health Work in Jerusalem; The Initiation of Mental Health Care for the Ultra- Orthodox; Changing Attitudes in Cultural Psychiatry; A Match Is Arranged Between Cultural Psychiatry and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism; Varieties of Religious Identification; The Parable of the Turkey; The Psychopathology of Belief and Ritual; Beliefs and Delusions; Visions and Hallucinations: Angels in Today's World; Nocturnal Hallucinations; 'A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me': Deconstructing the Narrative; Phenomenology and Differential Diagnoses of Nocturnal Hallucinations; Normative Rituals; Ritual as Psychopathology, or Is the Code of Jewish Law a Compulsive's Natural Habitat?; Religious Ritual and OCD: Is the Torah a 'Perfect Medicine' or Does It Cause OCD?: Psychopathology and Religious Return; The Baal Teshuva and Mental Health, or Why the Camel Changed His Burden, and How He Felt About It; Mental Illness and Religious Change: The Chicken or the Egg; 'A Very Narrow Bridge': Psychopathology Among Baalei Teshuva in a Fringe Hasidic Group; Mysticism and Psychosis: The Fate of Ben Zoma; ' Jerusalem Syndrome': Tourists Who Freak Out and Break Down in the Holy City; The Provision of Mental Health Care; Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes Toward Mental-Health Care; Improving Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox; Treating Depression in the Community by the Community; Case Studies; The Soldier of the Apocalypse; The Healing Power of Ritual; Paradise Regained: Breaking Through the Mask of Catatonia; Conclusion;..

Keywords: Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ultra-Orthodox, Jerusalem, Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Sociology, Israel, Mental Health, Anthropology