A Clinical Note on the Therapeutic Management of "Religious" Resistances in Orthodox Jewish Clientele


 

Publication Date: June 1981

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Moshe H. Spero

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Mental Health Therapy; Jewish Law (Halacha); Religious Denominations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

"Religious" resistances are almost always encountered during the beginning stages of therapeutic involvement with the religiously committed client. However, once these resistances are appropriately managed and the therapeutic alliance is firmly established, the patient's resistances should no longer take a uniquely religious form.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.57 no.4, Summer 1981.