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Mental Health, Religion & Culture Volume 3, 2000 - Issue 2
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All in faith: Religion as the idiom and means of coping with distress

Samuel C. Heilman Harold M Proshansky Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, City University of New York
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Eliezer Witztum Mental Health Center Beer-Sheva, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Pages 115-124 | Published online: 19 Aug 2010

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  • WITZTUM , E. , GREENBERG , D. and BUCHBINDER , J.T. 1990 . 'A very narrow bridge", Difficulties in diagnosis and management of mental illness among Bratslav Hasidim . Psychotherapy , 27 : 124 – 131 .
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