February 2019 \ News \ COLUMN—MENTAL HEALTH
INTERFACE OF SPIRITUALITY/ RELIGION & MENTAL HEALTH

By Haim Belmaker

Last, but not least, one of the founders of modern psychiatry is of Sigmund Freud who served on the Board of Trustees of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from its founding in 1920. He wrote avidly about Judaism especially in his book “Moses and Monotheism”. To my knowledge the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the only university in the world that has an endowed Sigmund Freud chair of psychoanalysis, which was endowed by donations raised by the World Psychoanalytic Association.

—Haim Belmaker, Chair, Local Organizing Committee, International Congress in Spirituality and Psychiatry. 1st-4th, December 2019 Jerusalem, Israel. www.rsp2019.org

 




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