Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures

Dr Harvey Schwartz is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) and at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP). He currently serves as the chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Health committee. He is a contributor to and (co)editor of four books including Psychodynamic Concepts in General Psychiatry and Illness in the Analyst: Implications for the Treatment Relationship. He is the producer of the IPA podcast Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch and is the founder of the Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis lecture series website.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the editor and contributorsPrefaceCHAPTER ONEInsight and tradition: The Enlightenment, psychoanalysis, and the JewsEli ZaretskyCHAPTER TWOForgiveness in Judaism and psychoanalysisStephen FroshCHAPTER THREESigmund Freud, the Jewish body, and hysteriaSander L. GilmanCHAPTER FOURUnconscious communication, psychoanalysis, and religious experienceMarsha Aileen HewittCHAPTER FIVEPsychoanalysis in Israel: Trauma, anti-Semitism, and victimizationEran RolnikCHAPTER SIXA Talmudist and a psychoanalyst encounter a Talmud taleRuth Calderon and Harvey SchwartzReferencesIndex

fascinating in pointing out the history of psychoanalysis, its trajectory and its strong links to Freud’s Jewish identity and Jewish thought. Many of these concepts continue to influence therapeutic practice today.