Research Catalog

Title

Homosexuality, transsexuality, psychoanalysis and traditional Judaism / edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Slomowitz, Alan
• Feit, Alison

Description

xxxiv, 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved. The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic, academic, and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation, and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation.0The second section focuses on gender identity, especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community. It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary. The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide. They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges. Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.

Series Statement

Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; 49

Uniform Title

Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 49.

Subjects

• Orthodox Judaism
• Jewish gays
• Gender identity
• Jewish lesbians
• Sex > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Judaism and psychoanalysis
• Queer theory
• Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sexual identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Preface: moving the conversation along by / Jack Drescher, MD -- Does God make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality / Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D. and Alison Feit, Ph.D -- Collateral damage : clinical and theoretical material of the unrecognized psychic and social damage caused by not recognizing and accepting LGBTQ members into the full context of the Orthodox community / Mark Blechner, Ph.D -- Discussion of "does god make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality" / Ronnie Lesser, Ph.D -- Response to does god make referrals and Drs. Blechner and Lesser papers / Rabbi Mark Dratch, LMSW -- Pastoral counselling and LGBTQ Orthodox Jews / Michelle Friedman, MD -- Gay Jewish men in the Orthodox Jewish community : striving for selfhood / Jeremy Novich, Ph.D -- The parents are our future / Miryam Kabakov, LMSW -- Envisioning an orthodox gay wedding / Rabbi Steven Greenberg -- Women known for these acts / Elaine Chapnik, JD -- Gender identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Fausto-sterling : the dynamic development of gender variability / Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D -- Transgender experiences and issues in Orthodox Jewish community : summary of findings / Oriol Poveda, Ph.D -- Genocide, transsexuality, the limits of coherence, and the radiance of the universe / Ben Baader, Ph.D -- Border crossings : commentary on Ben Baader's paper / Seth Aronson, Psy.D -- Knowing the soul of the stranger / Joy Ladin, Ph.D -- Rabbinic and halachic discourse on sex change surgery and gender definition / Hillel Gray, Ph.D -- Orthodox Judaism and its transgender members / Rabbi Hayim Shaffner, LCSW.

Call Number

JFE 19-6520

ISBN

• 9781138749467
• 113874946X
• 9781138749498
• 1138749494

LCCN

2018046361

OCLC

1088904149

Title

Homosexuality, transsexuality, psychoanalysis and traditional Judaism / edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; 49

Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 49.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Slomowitz, Alan, editor.

Feit, Alison, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Homosexuality, transsexuality, psychoanalysis and traditional Judaism New York : Routledge, 2019 9781315180151 (DLC) 2019009659

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6520