Jews - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies.

16 Aug 2009 Israel is the only country in the world that provides nearly unlimited, universal state funding for fertility treatments. This exceptional policy has been widely understood as symbolising the state's pronatalism. In this paper I probe the policy and ... Read more...

Being in Berlin: a large group experience in the Berlin Congress.

30 Jul 2009 In July 2007, the International Psychoanalytic Congress convened for the first time since the war in the former Nazi capital, Berlin. An open large group forum was held at this meeting, where attendees (Jewish, German and others) had the opportunity ... Read more...

Religious coping among Jews: development and initial validation of the JCOPE.

29 Jun 2009 Numerous studies have underscored the importance of religious coping in psychological health and illness; however, the majority of research in this area has been conducted with Christian samples and knowledge about other religious groups is lacking. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Jews - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: state policy and kinship ideologies. 16 Aug 2009
• Being in Berlin: a large group experience in the Berlin Congress. 30 Jul 2009
• Religious coping among Jews: development and initial validation of the JCOPE. 29 Jun 2009
• Promoting reconciliation through the satisfaction of the emotional needs of victimized and perpetrating group members: the needs-based model of reconciliation. 2 Jun 2009
• "You look, thank God, quite good on the outside": imitating the ideal self in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox rehabilitation site. 30 May 2009
• Familiality of novel factorial dimensions of schizophrenia. 30 May 2009
• Measuring, and identifying predictors of women's perceptions of three types of breast cancer risk: population risk, absolute risk and comparative risk. 8 Feb 2009
• Vulnerability and vigilance: threat awareness and perceived adversary intent moderate the impact of mortality salience on intergroup violence. 8 Feb 2009
• Gaza--a symptom of an insufficiently acknowledged cause. 15 Jan 2009
• "Look for the moral and sex sides of the problem": investigating Jewishness, desire, and discipline at Macy's Department Store, New York City, 1913. 30 Dec 2008
• The irony of harmony: intergroup contact can produce false expectations for equality. 30 Dec 2008
• Psychological distress and its demographic associations in an immigrant population: findings from the Israeli National Health Survey. 30 Dec 2008
• The artificial womb: a pilot study considering people's views on the artificial womb and ectogenesis in Israel. 30 Dec 2008
• PTSD symptoms, forgiveness, and revenge among Israeli Palestinian and Jewish adolescents. 29 Nov 2008
• Documents pertinent to the history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic pedagogy: the correspondence between Bruno Bettelheim and Ernst Federn (1). 29 Nov 2008
• Attitudes of Arab and Jewish patients toward integration of complementary medicine in primary care clinics in Israel: a cross-cultural study. 3 Nov 2008
• Can the past keep life pleasant even for old-old trauma survivors? 30 Oct 2008
• Ten-year follow-up study of PTSD diagnosis, symptom severity and psychosocial indices in aging holocaust survivors. 6 Sep 2008
• Psychiatric consequences for Israeli adolescents of protracted political violence: 1998-2004. 26 Jul 2008
• The psychological impact of the Israel-Hezbollah War on Jews and Arabs in Israel: the impact of risk and resilience factors. 26 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Jews'

Definition: An ethnic group with historical ties to the land of ISRAEL and the religion of JUDAISM.

Descriptor UI: D007585

Alternative terms: Jews; Jew;

Related Mesh Headings: Judaism;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.754.600;

Technical Notes: specify geog if relevant