Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work Among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. To Begin, Just Say, "How Are You?"......Page 12
Part I: An Introduction to Ultra-Orthodoxy and Community Mental Health Work in Jerusalem......Page 16
2. The Initiation of Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox......Page 18
3. Changing Attitudes in Cultural Psychiatry......Page 24
4. A Match Is Arranged Between Cultural Psychiatry and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism......Page 28
5. Varieties of Religious Identification......Page 32
6. The Parable of the Turkey......Page 37
Part II: The Psychopathology of Belief and Ritual......Page 46
7. Beliefs and Delusions......Page 48
8. Visions and Hallucinations: Angels in Today’sWorld......Page 63
9. Nocturnal Hallucinations......Page 71
10. ‘‘A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me’’: Deconstructing the Narrative......Page 82
11. Phenomenology and Differential Diagnoses of Nocturnal Hallucinations......Page 97
12. Normative Rituals......Page 104
13. Ritual as Psychopathology, or Is the Code of Jewish Law a Compulsive's Natural Habitat?......Page 119
14. Religious Ritual and OCD: Is the Torah a ‘‘Perfect Medicine’’ or Does It Cause OCD?......Page 136
Part III: Psychopathology and Religious Return......Page 146
15. The Baal Teshuva and Mental Health, or Why the Camel Changed His Burden, and How He Felt About It......Page 148
16. Mental Illness and Religious Change: The Chicken or the Egg......Page 162
17. ‘‘A Very Narrow Bridge’’: Pyschopathology Among Baalei Teshuva in a Fringe Hasidic Group......Page 174
18. Mysticism and Psychosis: The Fate of Ben Zoma......Page 189
19. ‘‘Jerusalem Syndrome’’: Tourists Who Freak Out and Break Down in the Holy City......Page 204
Part IV: The Provision of Mental Health Care......Page 222
20. Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes Toward Mental Health Care......Page 224
21. Improving Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox......Page 235
22. Treating Depression in the Community by the Community......Page 252
Part V: Case Studies......Page 262
23. The Soldier of the Apocalypse......Page 264
24. The Healing Power of Ritual......Page 281
25. Paradise Regained: Breaking Through the Mask of Catatonia......Page 301
Part VI: Conclusion......Page 318
26. Betrayal: The Prince and theWise Man Revisited......Page 320
27. Broken Souls Are Not Easily Mended......Page 337
Notes......Page 344
Glossary......Page 368
Bibliography......Page 374
Index......Page 394