Articles

The Articles on this page were written, co–written by, or written about Dr. Jerry Epstein.

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• "A Note on the Genesis of Illness: A New Direction for Healthcare Practice"
  Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, Vol. 22, No. 3 – Winter 2007⁄2008
• "Mental Imagery: the Language of Spirit"
  Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, Vol. 20, No. 3 – Fall, 2004
• "Never the Twain Shall Meet: Spirituality or Psychotherapy?"
  Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, Vol. 20, No. 3 – Fall, 2004
• "A Pilot Study of Mind–Body Changes in Adults with Asthma who Practice Mental Imagery"
  Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine – Summer, 2004
• "How To Use Mental Imagery for any Clinical Condition"
  Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in the Healing Process, ed. by Anees. A. Sheikh, pp. 427 – 436. Baywood Publisher – 2003
• "Imagery Exercises For Health"
  Handbook of Therapeutic Imagery Techniques. ed. by Anees A. Sheikh, pp. 108 – 114. Baywood Publisher – 2002
• "Detachment, Hope, and Spiritual Understanding: The Medical Model, A Comment on Bernie S. Siegel’s Prescriptions for Living"
  Advances: The Journal Of Mind–Body Health, vol. 16, no. 2.
• "The Meaning of the Lived Experience of Mental Imagery"
  Funded by OAM of NIH, and published in various medical journals in 1997
• "The Healing Tradition of Western Spirituality"
  Spectrum Interview, May ⁄June 1995
• "The Western Spiritual Medical Tradition: An interview with Gerald Epstein, MD"
  Body Mind Spirit, December 1993
• Journal of Psychiatry & Law
  editor–in–chief, including the writing of numerous editorials for this quarterly publication – 1973–1986
• "The Science of Face Reading: A Practitioner’s Guide to Morphology"
  Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, vol. 13, no. 3 – summer 1997, pp. 50–56
• "Alleviating Asthma with Mental Imagery: A Phenomenological Study"
  Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1 – January–February 1997, pp. 42–52
• "What’s Wrong with Freudianism: A Kabbalistic Perspective"
  Opening the Inner Gates, ed. E. Hoffman. Boston; Shambala – 1995, pp.61–74
• "Standing at Sinai: Time, Healing, and Re-Visioning Western Medicine"
  Opening the Inner Gates, ed. E. Hoffman. Boston; Shambala – 1995, pp 250–65
• 10 newsletter articles: Bottom Line, Health Confidential, Privileged Information
• "You Can Beat Allergies"
  Health Confidential – August 1990
• "How to Use Your Own Power of Healing: It’s Not Supernatural"
  Health Confidential – September, 1988
• "How to Do What You Want to Do, How to Be What You Want to Be"
  Epstein, Gerald & Swann, Ingo – Bottom Line – April 30, 1988
• "Reading Faces"
  Bottom Line – July 15, 1987
• "Four the One out of Four Who Suffers Chronic Pain"
  Privileged Information – December 15, 1987
• "Re–Viewing Death"
  Privileged Information – 1987
• "Bigger Immune System"
  Privileged Information – November 15, 1986
• "Hebraic Medicine"
  Advances, Institute for the Advancement of Health, Vol. 4, no. 1 – Spring 1987
• "Imagination"
  Brain Mind Bulletin, Vol. 11, no. 10 – May 26, 1986
• "The Image in Medicine: Notes of a Clinician"
  Advances, Vol. 3, no. 1 – Winter 1986
• "What’s Wrong with Freud? An Hebraic Perspective"
  Four Worlds Journal, Vols. 2 & 4 – 1985
• "Imagenetics: Re-creating Jewish Medicine"
  Four Worlds Journal, Vols. 1 & 5 – 1985
• "Time and Healing: A Judaic View "
  Four Worlds Journal, Vols. 1 & 4 – 1984
• "Phenomenological Differences among Self–Hypnosis, Mindfulness Meditation, and Imaging"
  co–authored with Drs. Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Philip Rich, Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, Vol 2, no. 4 – 1982–83
• "Visual Imagination and Dreaming"
  co–authored with Dr. George Hogben, in Gerald Epstein, ed., Studies in Non–Deterministic Psychology, New York: Human Sciences Press – 1980
• "The Relationship of Healing to Imagination"
  Gerald Epstein, ed., Studies in Non–Deterministic Psychology, New York: Human Sciences Press – 1980
• "Introduction"
  Gerald Epstein, ed., Studies in Non–Deterministic Psychology, New York: Human Sciences Press – 1980
• Book review of Medard Boss, Existential Foundations of Medicine and Psychology
  Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 25, no. 6 – 1980
• "The Influence of Philosophy on Freud’s Psychoanalytic Tenets"
  Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 7, no. 2 – April 1979
• "Informed Consent and the Dyadic Relationship"
  Journal of Psychiatry & Law, Vol. 6, no. 3 – 1978
• The Experience of Waking Dream in Psychotherapy
  in P. Olsen and J. Fosshage, eds., Healing: Implications for Psychotherapy, New York: Human Sciences Press – 1978
• "Possible Effects of Legal Input on the Dyadic Relationship"
  The Academy, Newsletter of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 22, no. 2 – 1978
• "Healing and Imagination"
  The Academy, Newsletter of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21, no. 4 – 1977
• "The Impact of Law on the Practice of Psychoanalysis"
  Journal of Psychiatry & Law, Vol 5, no. 5 – 1977
• "A Note on a Semantic Confusion in the ’Fundamental Rule’ of Psychoanalysis"
  Jour. Phila. Assn. for Psy., Vol. III, nos. 1 and 2 – 1976
• "The Psychoanalytic Treatment Center as a Transference Object: A Potential Difficulty in the Training of Candidates"
  co–authored with Dr. Arthur Meyerson, Psa. Quart., Vol. XLV – 1976
• Book review of Anna Freud, Joseph Goldstein, and Albert Solnit, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child
  Journal of Psychiatry & Law, Vol. 1, no. 3 – 1973
• Contributing Editor, Abstracts of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
  published by the National Institute of Mental Health – 1973
• Contributing Editor, Abstracts of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
  published by the National Institute of Mental Health – 1971

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