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With entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, this work presents a study of each rabbi in the "Talmud". It includes entries on each rabbinic personality mentioned in the "Talmud", and features such facts as their dates of birth, education, and occupation. Most of the entries are also accompanied by a brief story about the rabbinic personality.

The works of family therapists who apply Bowen family systems theory to self-differentiation in their own families.

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An examination of the work of Heinz Kohut which includes some of the clinical experiences of the authors themselves. The book is suitable for beginners, but contains ample reference to the traditional psychoanalytic matrix to make it useful to experienced clinicians.

Provides an overview of the Milan Family Therapy Team's work from its inception to its present state. The authors show how the variant and invariant family therapy methods evolved and provide the understanding necessary to allow readers to adapt these approaches to their own work.

Studing the criminal mind, this book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to change the criminals way of thinking. It rejects traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society, and stresses that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality.

Suicidology is the study of suicide and its prevention. This book contains chapters on the history and development of suicidology, the relation of trauma to suicide, psychological dimensions of suicide, the psychological autopsy, the problems of surviving a suicide attempt and the right to die.

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Offers a framework for living with the complexity of the therapeutic endeavor without falling prey to the practitioner's two great occupational hazards - grandiosity and despair.

Examines the treatment of young children from the perspective of the therapist's clinical decisions. How does the therapist know what to do at any given moment in a session? How does the child therapist balance working with the child and working with the child's parents?

Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. This work offers a sampling of Jewish women's written responses to the Lilith myth.

This book provides the reader with an introduction to important philosophical ideas of Jewish philosophers throughout history.

This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of separation then to the daughter's marriage and maternity, and finally, thoughtfully, to reparative opportunities inherent in the mother's aging and dying.

Covers various aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This book includes histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts, descriptions of Jewish sites, accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and information for Jewish travelers to the region.

Contributes to the library of Jewish folklore collections, thus actively helping to restore the treasures of Jewish oral tradition in our contemporary world. Drawn primarily from talmudic and midrashic sources, medieval texts, and the Israel Folktale Archives, this work features a story-within-a-story, which is part of the Jewish oral tradition.

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Allan Gonsher is an experienced family therapist with the dual perspective of a practicing Jew and a clinical training in psychology and inter-personal dynamics. "An Allowance is Not a Bribe" is the result of this viewpoint on Jewish parenting.

The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history. The author contends that there is a cyclical nature to the events of Jewish history. It attempts to give the reader an appreciation of the cyclical nature of Jewish history.

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Examines the profound teachings of beloved texts of Jewish life from the standpoints of other religious and philosophical systems. This book analyzes the teachings contained within Pirkei Avot in relation to similar or parallel teachings from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism.

"Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud".

Death and the Afterlife comprise the latest frontier of human knowledge and awareness. Rabbi Solomon addresses the Jewish perspective on the soul's afterlife journey. As a work of practical spirituality, The Jewish Book of Living and Dying applies traditional Jewish concepts to help us meet the difficult times we all face.

States that the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the twentieth century's well-known Orthodox Jewish leader. As spiritual leader of the Habad-Lubavitch Hasidic Movement, he spearheaded the worldwide reconstruction of post-Holocaust Jewish religious life. This book analyzes Rabbi Schneerson's educational philosophy.

A guide to Jewish Sabbath observance. It walks us through the celebration with an easy-to-follow how-to approach, allowing us to experience a traditional Shabbat. It explores common questions and concerns by the author, who has also included personal reflections by other individuals on each aspect of the observance.

Explores the intriguing concept of reincarnation as taught by the masters of the "Kabbalah" and as analyzed by major Jewish thinkers throughout history.

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