Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry

Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry
Author: H. Steven Moffic
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030377458

Following World War II and the exposure of the concentration camps, psychiatry turned its attention to a vast range of cultural concerns with results that seemed to indicate a decline of stigma over time. However, it is now clear that whatever drives prejudices, especially in the case of anti-Semitism, was just dormant and perhaps not fully understood. Hate crimes and anti-Semitism broad recently re-emerged in Europe, and the United States followed shortly thereafter. The US Federal Bureau of investigation reports that New York City, which is still considered the most Jewish-friendly region in the US, experienced a 22% spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2018 alone, with more extremes in other regions of the country. Neo-Nazi groups have grown stronger in the United States and abroad, often resulting in organized acts of violence. The recent Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, PA demonstrated that these acts are not limited to one-on-one interactions, but sometimes as prolific, large-scale act. The medical community is not immune from biases either. The Cleveland Clinic recently fired a young doctor after she publicly declared her wishes to inject Jewish patients with lethal substances, which is only one of many hateful comments she made on social media over the course of several years. Psychiatrists in particular grapple with this as they try to serve patients of both Jewish and non-Jewish descent who struggle to process these acts of hate. Despite all of this, there is no training and no resource to guide medical professionals through these challenges. The editors of the recent Springer book, Islamophobia and Psychiatry, recognize this gap in the literature and seek to develop another high-quality text to meet this need. Written by expert clinicians in global regions where these incidents are most prevalent, the book seeks to be neither political nor opinion-based; instead, the text takes an innovative cross-cultural psychiatric interaction, similar to what was done with Springer’s new Islamophobia book. Coverage will range from foci on the social psychiatric aspects of anti-Semitism to how it may in turn infuse clinical encounters between patients and clinicians. Written by experts in this area, the insight and expertise of psychiatrists from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds will focus on what psychiatrists need to know to combat the negative mental health impact that increasingly rise out of this particular phenomenon. Such a multi-cultural psychiatric approach has never been taken before for this topic. This discourse is the foundation for the primary goal of this book: to develop the tools needed to improve clinical outcomes for patients. Hence, this book aims to present an updated, comprehensive bio-psychosocial perspective on anti-Semitism at the interface of clinical psychiatry.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism
Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 162914858X

A groundbreaking work on the psychodynamics of bigotry and anti-Semitism. As a child, Ted Rubin could not understand why some people hated him and his family only because they were Jews. He soon discovered that other groups were hated and that bigotry was a dangerous disease that destroys its hosts as well as its victims. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin learned that anti-Semitism and other deep-seated prejudices are non-organic diseases of the mind: malignant emotional illnesses that can be treated only by first understanding the unique psychodynamics involved. Little has been written about this aspect of bigotry. Anti-Semitism is a bold endeavor to shed light on one of humankind's most destructive and contagious illnesses, and offers hope and healing for the future. In Anti-Semitism, Rubin lays the groundwork for a person to successfully overcome hatred, to understand where it comes from and why, and to recognize that anti-Semitism devastates people, cripples self-esteem, and is capable of “engendering great suffering, horror and murder.” Anyone who has wrestled with hatred or bigotry, either as the victim or the host, will find clarity and direction in Dr. Rubin’s eloquent analysis.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism
Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1990
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

A bold and original endeavor to shed light on one of humankind's most destructive and contagious illnesses: bigotry.

Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism

Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110618591

This volume provides a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred, which are stored in the cultural and religious memories of the Western and Muslim worlds, migrating freely between Christian, Muslim and other religious symbolic systems.

Islamophobia and Psychiatry

Islamophobia and Psychiatry
Author: H. Steven Moffic
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030005127

The book begins by covering the general and clinical challenges that are unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerationally diverse pool of experts. The text covers not only how psychiatrists and other clinicians can intervene successfully with patients, but how we as clinicians can have a role in addressing other societally connected mental health challenges arising from Islamophobia. The text addresses three related but distinct areas of interest: Islamophobia as a destructive force, Islam as a religion that is threatened by stigma and misinformation, and the novel intersection of these forces with the field of psychiatry. Islamophobia and Psychiatry is a vital resource for all clinicians and clinicians in training who may encounter patients struggling with these issues, including adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, counselors, social workers, and others.

Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology

Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology
Author: Daniel Burston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2021-05-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000414914

Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Applied Book 2021 Carl Jung angrily rejected the charge that he was an anti-Semite, yet controversies concerning his attitudes towards Jews, Zionism and the Nazi movement continue to this day. This book explores Jung’s ambivalent relationship to Judaism in light of his career-changing relationship and rupture with Sigmund Freud and takes an unflinching look at Jung’s publications, public pronouncements and private correspondence with Freud, James Kirsch and Erich Neumann from 1908 to 1960. Analyzing the religious and racial, Christian and Muslim, high-brow and low-brow varieties of anti-Semitism that were characteristic of Jung’s time and place, this book examines how Muslim anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism intensified following the Balfour Declaration (1917), fostering the resurgence of anti-Semitism on the Left since the fall of the Soviet Empire. It urges readers to be mindful of the new and growing threats to the safety and security of Jewish people posed by the resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world today. This book explores the history of the controversy concerning Jung’s anti-Semitism both before and after the publication of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism (1991), and invites readers to reflect on the relationships between Judaism, Christianity and Zionism, and between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, in new and challenging ways. It will be of considerable interest to psychoanalysts, historians and all those interested in the history of analytical psychology, anti-Semitism and interfaith dialogue.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism
Author: Theodore I. Rubin
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1990
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780824512873

Explores the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism--a non-organic disease of the mind--arguing that such illnesses are treatable only by first understanding the unique psychodynamics involved

Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis

Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 1991-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814730442

Growing out of a conference held at Cornell U. in 1986, this collection of essays exploring the representation of the Jew in the Western world investigates the role of the Jew as the ultimate other in Europe and in the parts of the world colonized by Europeans, and follows the shift from Semitism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Science Over Stigma

Science Over Stigma
Author: Daniel B. Morehead, M.D.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1615373071

Dr. Morehead argues that it is time for a full-throated defense of mental health treatment, and that it falls to everyone, from medical and mental health professionals to the general public, to advocate on its behalf. He cogently lays out the science behind mental illness and mental health care, candidly discussing both what is known and what re