Table of Contents
Foreword 1. Introduction: A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice Narratives 2. Sara, Without the ‘‘H’’ 3. A Jewish Woman Who Celebrates Nature 4. Being Jewish and Being a Psychotherapist 5. The Jewish Nonsheep as Lesbian Feminist Therapist 6. From Hidden Child to Godless Jew: A Personal Journey 7. Nu! You Make a Living at This? 8. A Journey From the Big Apple to the South and Beyond 9. Jewish in Alaska: Scanning the Room 10. Somewhere Else: The Geography of a Life 11. Beyond Silence and Survival 12. A Process Without End: Seeking the Unrealized Yet Irrepressible Aspects of Self 13. Elijah’s Ghost: A Female Jewish Therapist Explores the Legacy of Love, Fear, Social Action and Faith 14. French, Catholic, Jewish. Outsider Within 15. From the Outside, Looking In 16. Culture as Both a Lens and a Veil 17. Am I Jewish? 18. Reflections on a Carpathian Legacy 19. I’ve Always Known I’m Jewish, but How Am I Jewish? 20. I Am the Rabbi’s Daughter 21. How I Lost My Yiddische Kop and Found It Again: The Un-M-Bellished Truth 22. Journey to the Start of Day: Ancestry, Ethnicity, and My Work as a Clinical Psychologist 23. Growing up Jewish: The Shaping of One Activist 24. My Names 25. On Being and Not Being Jewish: From Pink Diapers to Social Activist=Feminist Commentaries 26. One Particular Minyan 27. On Poets, Revolutionaries, and the Power of Naming 28. Looking Beneath the Surface: Trauma, Invisibility, and the Negotiation of Identity in the Minyan 29. Leah with an ‘‘H’’ or How I am Jewish, But Not Really 30. Speaking Truth to Power in the Minyan 31. Healing the Self, Healing the World: A Feminist Journey 32. Memories, Reflections, and Questions 33. The Minyan: Through the Lens of a Black Child of Harlem 34. Culture and the Self: On Paradoxes and Contradictions 35. Mazel Tov Epilogue 36. Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identities: How the Personal Shapes the Professional Psychotherapist