Reframing (Rabbi Sacks on Vayigash, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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Maimonides called his ideal type of human being the chakram, the sage. A rothhenophashot, a healer of souls. Today, we call such a person a psychotherapist - a word coin relatively recently from the Greek word psychim, meaning soul and therapy, meaning healing. It's astonishing how many of the pioneering soul healers in modern times have been Jewish. Almost all the early psychoanalysts were,. among them Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Otto Rank and Melanie Klein.
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