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Mordechai Rotenberg's Dia-logo Therapy: A New Approach to Dialogical Psychotherapy

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This article attempts an overview of Mordechai Rotenberg's second and third books, Dialogue with Deviance and Re-Biographing and Deviance, and an in-depth analysis of his fourth book Dia-logo Therapy. It shows how Rotenberg builds on his early studies of Protestantism and American individualism and on his Talmudic, Hasidic, and Jewish hermeneutic background to offer a challenging rereading of the task of the therapist. This includes the bridging of the rational and the irrational, the factual and the mystical, through psychonarration and re-biographing. It also includes a trenchant distinction between the unilateral truth of Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, and Freud and the multilateral truth of Socrates, the Talmud, and Martin Buber. Throughout the article a comparison is made between Rotenberg's thought and that of both Martin Buber and Maurice Friedman.

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Friedman, M. Mordechai Rotenberg's Dia-logo Therapy: A New Approach to Dialogical Psychotherapy. Journal of Psychology and Judaism 21, 201–210 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOPJ.0000010904.11185.ef

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