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Tania Friedlander: Teshuva and Becoming Capable of More
We talk to Tania Friedlander about how her husband’s Parkinson’s diagnosis challenged her expectations and taught her to become capable of more.
Day 20: The True & False Self
In Theory: D. W. Winnicott distinguished between two modes of selfhood within the object relations tradition. The True Self refers to spontaneous…
Tania Friedlander: Teshuva and Becoming Capable of More
We talk to Tania Friedlander about how her husband’s Parkinson’s diagnosis challenged her expectations and taught her to become capable of more.
The Love That Cannot Be Broken: Rashi’s Theory of Jewish Resilience
In the darkness of the Hamas tunnels, some hostages turned to Jewish ritual to endure. For those raised observant, this may have…
Day 19: Afterwardsness
In Theory: Psychodynamic thought proposes that experience does not always acquire meaning at the moment it occurs, but only afterward under different…
Shlomo Pill: ‘Mysticism is really just a mapping of human experience’
Shlomo Pill explains how mysticism is the soul of the Torah and prayer is the avenue through which we recognize God’s role…
Day 18: Rupture & Repair
In Theory: Developmental research on attachment and psychodynamic observation show that the health of a relationship is not determined by the absence…
Day 17: Enactment
In Theory: An enactment in contemporary psychodynamic theory occurs when something that cannot be spoken, such as a feeling, a relational dynamic,…
Day 16: Mirroring
In Theory: Heinz Kohut, a central figure in self psychology within psychodynamic theory, proposed that a basic human need, beginning in infancy…
The Torah’s Warning About Having Everything
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
