Rabbinical Counseling aims to help the hurting individual within the parameters of a religious setting. Rabbi Steven Kaplan helps the rabbi or professional therapist acquire the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to work most effectively with a person in distress.

Rabbinical Counseling
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Concepts
Chapter 1: What is Rabbinic Counseling?
Chapter 2: Social Interest, Torah, and Hillel
Chapter 3: Personality Theory for Rabbinic Counseling
Chapter 4: Prayer and Emotional Healing
Chapter 5: Understanding Inferiority
Part II: Talking To God as Therapy
Chapter 6: Why Should We Talk To God?
Chapter 7: Where Should We Talk To God?
Chapter 8: How Should We Talk To God?
Chapter 9: What Do We Talk To God About?
Chapter 10: Potential Obstacles in Talking to God
Part III: Psychodynamic Understandings
Chapter 11: The Mind-Body Connection
Chapter 12: Depression: Its Meanings and Uses
Chapter 13: Suicide and Communication
Chapter 14: Guilt Feelings as an Exercise
Chapter 15: Anxiety and Phobias: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Chapter 16: Obsessions and Compulsions
Chapter 17: On Love and Marraige
Chapter 18: Elderly Concerns
Chapter 19: On the Death of a Loved One
 
Chapter 20: Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning
 Chapter 21: Questioning Faith
Chapter 22: Insomnia
Chapter 23: Substance Abuse
Chapter 24: Understanding Schizophrenia
Part IV: Processes
Chapter 25: Goals in Rabbinic Counseling
Chapter 26: The First Meetings
Chapter 27: Feeling Better vs. Getting Better
Chapter 28: What is Transference?
Chapter 29: Dreams and Dream Interpretation
Chapter 30: Early Recollections
Chapter 31: The Lifestyle
Chapter 32: Birth Order Position
Chapter 33: The Placebo Effect in Rabbinic Counseling
Chapter 34: Hypnosis in Rabbinic Counseling
Chapter 35: To Whom Should the Rabbi Refer?
Part V: Life's Paths
Chapter 36: Faith
Chapter 37: Prayer
Chapter 38: Silence
Chapter 39: Joy
Chapter 40: Simplicity
Chapter 41: Peace of Mind
Chapter 42: Patience
 
Chapter 43: Anger
Chapter 44: Optimism and Hope
Chapter 45: Forgetting
Chapter 46: Self-Confidence
Chapter 47: The Challenge of Marraige
Chapter 48: The Jewish Home
Chapter 49: Work
Chapter 50: Midlife Is No Crisis
Chapter 51: Our Golden Years
Chapter 52: Coping With Illness
Chapter 53: For the Comfort of Mourners
Bibliography
Author Biography