- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 To Begin, Just Say, “How Are You?” -
2 The Initiation of Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -
3 Changing Attitudes in Cultural Psychiatry -
4 A Match Is Arranged Between Cultural Psychiatry and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism -
5 Varieties of Religious Identification -
6 The Parable of the Turkey -
7 Beliefs and Delusions -
8 Visions and Hallucinations -
9 Nocturnal Hallucinations -
10 “A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me” -
11 Phenomenology and Differential Diagnoses of Nocturnal Hallucinations -
12 Normative Rituals -
13 Ritual as Psychopathology, or Is the Code of Jewish Law a Compulsive's Natural Habitat? -
14 Religious Ritual and OCD -
15 The Baal Teshuva and Mental Health, or Why the Camel Changed His Burden, and How He Felt About It -
16 Mental Illness and Religious Change: The Chicken or the Egg -
17 “A Very Narrow Bridge” -
18 Mysticism and Psychosis -
19 “Jerusalem Syndrome” -
20 Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes Toward Mental Health Care -
21 Improving Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -
22 Treating Depression in the Community by the Community -
23 The Soldier of the Apocalypse -
24 The Healing Power of Ritual -
25 Paradise Regained -
26 Betrayal -
27 Broken Souls Are Not Easily Mended - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
“A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me”
“A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me”
Deconstructing the Narrative
- Chapter:
- 10 “A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me”
- Source:
- Sanity and Sanctity
- Author(s):
David Greenberg
Eliezer Witztum
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter examines why nocturnal hallucinations predominantly affect ultra-orthodox teenage boys with a history of learning difficulties. The following unique aspects of ultra-orthodox life are analyzed for their influence: (i) growing up with learning difficulties in an environment where academic achievement is the pinnacle of success and no alternative is countenanced; (ii) the challenges presented by such important milestones in life as bar mitzvah, adolescence, and leaving home to live in a yeshiva; (iii) the impact of loss; (iv) the meaning of night in ultra-orthodox Judaism; and (v) the differences between the sexes.
Keywords: ultra-orthodox Jews, nocturnal hallucinations, Jewish teenage boys, learning difficulties
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 To Begin, Just Say, “How Are You?” -
2 The Initiation of Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -
3 Changing Attitudes in Cultural Psychiatry -
4 A Match Is Arranged Between Cultural Psychiatry and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism -
5 Varieties of Religious Identification -
6 The Parable of the Turkey -
7 Beliefs and Delusions -
8 Visions and Hallucinations -
9 Nocturnal Hallucinations -
10 “A Big Man Dressed in Black Is Hitting Me” -
11 Phenomenology and Differential Diagnoses of Nocturnal Hallucinations -
12 Normative Rituals -
13 Ritual as Psychopathology, or Is the Code of Jewish Law a Compulsive's Natural Habitat? -
14 Religious Ritual and OCD -
15 The Baal Teshuva and Mental Health, or Why the Camel Changed His Burden, and How He Felt About It -
16 Mental Illness and Religious Change: The Chicken or the Egg -
17 “A Very Narrow Bridge” -
18 Mysticism and Psychosis -
19 “Jerusalem Syndrome” -
20 Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes Toward Mental Health Care -
21 Improving Mental Health Care for the Ultra-Orthodox -
22 Treating Depression in the Community by the Community -
23 The Soldier of the Apocalypse -
24 The Healing Power of Ritual -
25 Paradise Regained -
26 Betrayal -
27 Broken Souls Are Not Easily Mended - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
