ארכיון psychotherapy - Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro (PhD)

Seminar: Spiritual Jewish Psychotherapy in Israel

This unique conference brought together research and practice in the innovative field of spiritual Jewish psychotherapy in Israel. It took place within the framework of the research project led by Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro and Prof. Ofra Mayseless, as part of an international and multicultural research project in the field of spiritual psychotherapy. (See links on the page.) Introductory lectures and a summary panel were held at the seminae, which were recorded on video. There were also discussion circles.

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November 12, 2023

Identity / Israel / Judaism and Kabbalah / Mind and psychology

Article: Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy

Article: Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy This article is included in a book dedicated to studies on spiritually integrated psychotherapy aroun the globe, published by APA (American Psychological Association). This article is unique in addressing the meetingplace between this realm and the Jewish tradition - the subject of our pioneering research project, that combined gathering data in quantitative and qualitatinve tools, and surveyed this emerging field in Israel which has yet to be studied. The article is chapter 14 in a volume that presents studies included in an international research project, funded by a competitive budjet from the Templeton fund.

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November 13, 2022

Magic and paganism / Mind and psychology / Postmodernism / Science/medicine and technology / Typology and comparative study

Lecture: Bio-Medicine and Alternative Medicine – From a Modernistic Paradigm to a Postmodernistic Paradigm

This study compares the conventional bio-medicine's worldview with the one of complementary/alternative medicine, indicating the parallel lines between those worldviews to modernism and postmodernism (respectively). The studt identifies a new and innovative group of therapy, with a logic yet to exist - neiter in the modern nor the traditional world (thus we also present a comparative reference to traditional, pre-modern, therapy). The comparison's focus is the issue of language's role in the therapeutic process. The novel worldview isn't caracteristic to every new or alternative therapy, thus I named this innovative group of therapy methods "the new alternative medicine".

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January 19, 2022

Judaism and Kabbalah / Magic and paganism / Mind and psychology / Postmodernism / Science/medicine and technology / Typology and comparative study

Article: Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods – Language as a Neo-Magical Tool

"There are only two things in the world – nothing and semantics." (Werner Erhard) This paper (some 6,000 words) argues that a new genre of therapy has appeared in the arena of contemporary spiritual alternative healing, which expresses an outlook never-before-seen in the history of medicine: postmodern therapy. Postmodern therapeutic methods (PTMs) express a popularization of postmodernist philosophy in regards to language and its role in the therapeutic process. These methods will be illustrated, and then analyzed in comparison to two other groups of methods: traditional magic, and modern medicine. In addition, we shall characterize PTMs as neo-magic, as they exercise the psychologization and rationalization of magic.

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January 17, 2022