Bookedited by H. Steven Moffic, John R. Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, Mary V. Seeman.
Summary: This book is a high-quality, innovative resource that examines the cross-cultural, psychiatric interaction between anti-Seminitism and clinical mental health, thereby filling the gap in the psychiatry literature on this particular stigma. Written by experts in this area with a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds, the text focuses on what psychiatrists need to know to combat the negative mental health impact that increasingly rise out of this particular phenomenon. This approach has never been taken in a clinical text. The book begins by introducing the history of the problem before examining the intra- and interpersonal, psycho-, and social aspects of anti-Semitism in psychiatry. Chapters cover the key indicators for recognition, treatment of patients who struggle with the stigma, shock, and trauma created by hate toward this community, as well as tactics for prevention and intervention. Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry is the only non-political, clinical resource on this particular stigma and its negative impact on mental health for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, pediatricians, geriatricians, hospital administrators, public health officials, counselors, social workers, and all others.
Contents:
A Short History of the Jewish People
A Short History of Anti-Semitism
Prejudice: Intra and Interpersonal Aspects
Biological Determinants of Bigotry and Its Role in the Resurgence of Severe Anti-Semitism
An Artistic View of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Identity
A Personal Psychiatric History of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Jewish Psychiatrist
Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Christian Psychiatrist
Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Muslim Psychiatrist
Anti-Semitism: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Hindu Psychiatrist
The Psychological Effects of Anti-Semitism on the Perpetrators and Victims
Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Approach
Anti-Semitism: The Psychoanalytic Approach
Jewish Stereotypes in Diagnosis and Treatment
The Treatment of Anti-Semitic Patients
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Community Resilience and the Tree of Life Shootings
Judaism and Rural Psychiatry
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in the Middle East
A Psychiatric Approach to the Prevention and Treatment of Hate Crimes
Harnessing the Power of Film to Challenge Anti-Semitism
The Role of Jewish Agencies in Reducing Anti-Semitism
Leadership for Reducing Anti-Semitism
Can Anti-Semitism be Cured?.