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Rewriting the Self - Psychotherapy and Midrash (Hardcover)
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Rewriting the Self - Psychotherapy and Midrash (Hardcover)
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While the term midrash--from the Hebrew darash, searched or
interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural
exegesis, it most commonly refers to symbolic legends, stories, and
parables used to make moral or ethical concepts accessible to the
layman. As such, midrash encompasses an open-ended method of
exposition that often allows for the coexistence of seemingly
contradictory interpretations of holy writ in a kind of dialogue
with each other. In Rewriting the Self, Mordechai Rotenberg
illustrates how "midrashic" dialogue between a person's past and
present may assist in the reorganization of ostensibly contrasting
conditions or positions, so that by reinterpreting a failing past
according to future aspirations, cognitive discord may be reduced
and one may begin to rehabilitate and enhance one's life. Rotenberg
argues that the foundations of what he calls a "dialogic"
psychology of progress, as well as a pluralistic, free choice
approach to psychotherapy, may be identified in Judaism's midrashic
"metacode." From a practical, therapeutic perspective, a teacher or
therapist would no longer be an elite interpreter of a student or
client's past, authorized to give the only authentic analysis of
that person's problems. Rather, he would be able to offer a variety
of options, both rational and emotional. In Rewriting the Self,
Rotenberg demonstrates his theory with several case studies of
"rewriting" oneself from both the Midrash and Talmud. He contrasts
this method with other psychotherapies. This volume is the third in
a trilogy (the previous two, Damnation and Deviance and Hasidic
Psychology, are also published by Transaction) that seeks to
present a "dialogistic" psychology as an alternative framework to
the perspective that predominates in Western social sciences. It is
an original work that will be welcomed by psychotherapists, social
scientists, and students of theology.
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