A Minyan of Women

Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice

Beverly Greene editor Dorith Brodbar editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Sep '10

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This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are similar in many respects and who belong to an ethnic group that is often invisible. Jewish people, like members of other ethnic groups are often treated as if their identities were homogeneous. However, gender, social class, sexual orientation, factors surrounding immigration status, proximity of family members to the holocaust or pogroms, the number of generations one's family has been in the US and other salient aspects of experience and identites transform and inform the meaning and experience by group members.

The book explores these diversities of experience and goes on to highlight the way in which the intermingling of family dynamics and subsequent Jewish identity in these women is manifested in the practice of psychotherapy.

In 2012, the book had been awarded the Jewish Women Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology Award for Scholarship, for that year.

This book was published as a special issue of Women and Therapy.

"A Minyan of Women is a marvelous, eclectic, inspiring collection of writings about family dynamics, Jewish and intersecting identities. Most are personal narratives, while others are commentaries written by colleagues and allies from different cultural backgrounds and religious identities.

There can be an initial discomfort in hearing/reading how one’s primary culture and identity is perceived by another, but in reading this book, sitting with and through that discomfort led to a more compassionate, multidimensional framework for understanding Jewish identity as it impacts self, family, clients and colleagues, as well as community."

--Jewish Women Caucus Award for Women in Psychology Committee

ISBN: 9780415608824

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 830g

360 pages