Preeminent psychoanalyst Mortimer Ostow believes that early childhood emotional attachments form the cognitive underpinnings of spiritual experience and religious motivation. His hypothesis, which is verifiable, relies on psychological and neurobiological evidence but is respectful of the human need for spiritual value. Ostow begins by classifying the three parts of the spiritual experience: awe, Spirituality proper, and mysticism. After he pinpoints the psychological origins of these feelings in infancy, he discusses the foundations of religious sentiment and practice and the brain...
Preeminent psychoanalyst Mortimer Ostow believes that early childhood emotional attachments form the cognitive underpinnings of spiritual experience a...
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfils Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both general psychoanalytic commentaries on the framework of mysticism and the "apocalyptic complex" and essays on specific incidents in the Bible and the Kabbalah, it opens doors into many fascinating avenues of enquiry. A glossary of the terms used makes it accessible to those who have little or no knowledge of Jewish mysticism; they, along with more experienced students of the field, will find Ultimate...
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfils Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis an...
Is psychoanalysis a 'Jewish' science? Ten essays, by the editor and other distinguished scholars, explore the 'Jewishness' of psychoanalysis, its origins in Jewish culture of the late 19th century, Freud's Jewishness, and that of his colleagues. The contributors also seek to demonstrate what the psychoanalytic approach can contribute to the study of Judaism.
Is psychoanalysis a 'Jewish' science? Ten essays, by the editor and other distinguished scholars, explore the 'Jewishness' of psychoanalysis, its orig...
The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, it puts flesh and bones on the discussion of antisemitism in Sigmund Freud's 1939 classic theoretical study Moses and Monotheism. Its close adherence to case material, and...
The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression, challenge those who study human behavior to l...
