Mortimer Ostow
Ostow Mortimer was a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who specialised in the study of anti-Semitism and religious and racial fanaticism. He maintained a private practice in Manhattan, and his works include Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism, Drugs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and The Psychology of Melancholy. His studies of terrorism, and his theories on the Psychological causes of fanaticism are arguably more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 age.
Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfills Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and the study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
Spirit, Mind, and Brain: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion
Mortimer Ostow proposes an explanation of spiritual experience and religious motivation that is rooted in the analysis of early childhood emotional attachments. This novel approach, which can be... (more)
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism
By examining prejudiced patients and their myths, Dr Ostow exposes the common threads of anti-semitism across a variety of national and cultural settings. The book is divided into five major... (more)