The Americanization of Mussar: Abraham Twerski's Twelve Steps.
From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought
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Date: 9/22/1999
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Author: HEINZE, ANDREW R.
IN 1946 REFORM RABBI JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN PUBLISHED Peace of Mind, an inspirational best-seller that declared psychology to be as important as religion to Americans' spiritual growth. Traditionalist intellectuals, led by the neo-orthodox thinker Will Herberg, were appalled at the incursion of psychotherapeutics into the religious sanctum. They denounced Liebman's provocative thesis, trumpeting their certainty that traditional religion and psychotherapy did not mix. [1] Their ...
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