Psychosocial adjustment among returnees to Judaism
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B Trappler1, J Endicott, S Friedman
1Department of Psychiatry State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203, USA.
Abstract:
Two groups of returnees to Orthodox Judaism who were among Lubavitcher Hasidim attending an outpatient mental health center were studied to investigate a relief effect upon returning. One group manifested lifelong serious psychopathology, and the members of the comparison group, who had undergone similar religious transition, had sought help for adjustment-type problems. The psychopathology manifested prior to religious change persisted for those who had exhibited a lifelong history of pathology, even after the radical transition. The lack of a relief effect and the lifestyles possibly unique to Lubavitcher Hasidim are discussed.
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