Between Rationality and Irrationality : The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System

ISBN-13: 9780765805836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 204 str.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Opis

For Rotenberg, a person's life becomes the "text," subject to being read and interpreted. If that person wishes to change his or her behavior through psychotherapy, then a hermeneutic system must be employed to understand that person's life. However, many systems interpret a person's life according to the particular theory espoused by the therapist. Rotenberg, in contrast, introduces a balanced theory bridging the rational and the irrational. Between Rationality and Irrationality emphasizes that it is more important for a therapist to learn his client's own "language" than to impose his own doctrinaire interpretation.

Spis treści

One: Dia-Logic Truth; 1: Dia-logic and Dialectic Languages of Psychotherapy; 2: Contraction, Deconstruction, and True Interpretation; Two: Intrapersonal Dia-Logism; 3: Unconsciousness: The Underground for Irrational Mysticism; 4: PaRDeS: The Narrative Link between Cognitive and Mystic Therapy; 5: Depressed Mania and Spiritual Ecstasy; Three: Interpersonal Dia-Logism; 6: The Psychology of “Doing My Own Thing . . . for You”; 7: Dia-logic Recomposing and Psychotherapy; 8: Derush: The Pivot for Re-biographing and Pre-biographing; Appendix

O autorze

Mordechai Rotenberg