Between Rationality and Irrationality: The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System
Jewish Scriptural interpretation entails a potential therapeutic bridge between the rational-material and the irrational-mystic in the world of psychotherapy. PaRDeS, as this system is known, is derived from the following concepts. "P" denotes peshat, the plain interpretation of the text, which translates into a rational interpretation of life. "R" symbolizes remez, hinting at a related religious concept, which becomes a symbolic view of life. "D" stands for derash, the homiletic way of...
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When he fled Berlin as a terrified teenager, Gunther Stent had been so thoroughly indoctrinated in Jewish self-hatred that his fondest wish was to be accepted into the Nazi youth movement. Only eight years later, his dreams came miraculously true when he swaggered back to Berlin, wearing an American uniform and capturing the heart of a blond shiksa actress. But it was nearly a lifetime before he understood that it was himself who had now become callous.
1Dia-ogic and dialectic languages of psychotherapy32Contraction, deconstruction, and true interpretation193Unconsciousness : the underground for irrational mysticism414PaRDeS : the narrative link between cognitive and mystic therapy585Depressed mania and spiritual exstasy756The psychology of "doing my own thing...for you"997Dia-logic recomposing and psychotherapy1198Derush : the pivot for re-biographing and pre-biographing140AppPardes and PaRDeS : towards a psychotherapeutic theory157
