Jewish Studies. A psychiatrist’s memoir of treating Hasidim patients at a community mental clinic in Brooklyn. “There was a steady trickle of patients. They were invariably male, invariably psychotic, and, invariably, I was the first psychiatrist they had ever seen. They were, in turn, the first insane Hasidim I had seen. The difference was in the details — a Jewish God speaking to them instead of a Gentile God, a personal message received from the Talmud instead of the TV, a belief that they were the Mechiach instead of Jesus Christ”. Further information.
