Articles

The Articles on this page were written, co–written by, or written about Dr. Jerry Epstein. You can download and read selected articles in PDF format by clicking on the title.

  • Health Care with a Spiritual Base
    Dickinson Magazine: Winter 2011, Vol. 88, No.3, p. 56 (A publication of Dickinson College)
    Winter, 2011

    Dr. Jerry Epstein, MD describes the healing tradition of Kabbalah Medicine which utilizes the mind to heal mental and physical illness via mental imagery. Visualizations for money worries, pain and anxiety are excerpted from Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You through the Day.   

    application/pdf iconDickinson, Winter 2011 Health Care with a Spiritual Base p56.pdf
    http://www.drjerryepstein.org/content/kabbalah-inner-peace-imagery-and-insights-...
  • How Does Mental Imagery Work?
    Imaginews: The Journal of Imagery International, July 2010, Vol 14, No. 2
    July 2010

    How Does Mental Imagery Work?

    Imagery is an ancient healing method that is based in a unitive interaction between the mental and physical. In this mindbody system, what is happening in one is reflected - not caused - in the other. Mental Imagery was understood to be a divine language bringing together in consciousness the invisible world with the visible.  Imagery was recognized as the natural and true language of inner life. This sacred language, akin to the hieroglyphs gives direct messages and instructions to our physical body as to how to heal. 

    application/pdf iconimaginews july 2010issue _How Does Mental Imagery Work_ G. Epstein.pdf
  • IMAGINAR PARA SANA (in Spanish)
    Mujer
    June 2010

    Spanish language  article by Danianiela Gonzalez Albornoz & Caco Herta describe Dr. Jerry Epstein's work in mental imagery in the Chile Magazine, MUJER,  June 2010.

    http://mujer.latercera.com/2010/06/20/01/contenido/23_1155_9.shtml
  • "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
    application/pdf iconGenesis_Of_Illness.pdf
  • "Mental Imagery: the Language of Spirit"
    Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, Vol. 20, No. 3
    Fall, 2004
    application/pdf iconMental Imagery the Language of Spirit - G. Epstein (Advances mind-body journal, Fall 2004 Vol. 20 No. 3)(3).pdf
  • "Never the Twain Shall Meet: Spirituality or Psychotherapy?"
    Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, Vol. 20, No. 3
    Fall, 2004
    application/pdf iconTwainMeet.pdf
  • "A Pilot Study of Mind–Body Changes in Adults with Asthma who Practice Mental Imagery"
    Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
    Summer, 2004
    application/pdf iconPilot_Study_Mind-Body_Changes_in_Adults_with_Asthma_Who_Practice_Mental_Imagery.pdf
  • 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
    application/pdf iconHow to Use Mental Imagery for Any Clinical Condition (1).pdf
  • "Imagery Exercises For Health"
    Handbook of Therapeutic Imagery Techniques. ed. by Anees A. Sheikh, pp. 108 – 114. Baywood Publisher
    2002
    application/pdf iconImagery Exercises for Health (G. Epstein).pdf
  • Relationships and the Waking Dream
    The Spirit of Ma'at April 2001, Vol. 1, No. 9
    April, 2001 Vol 1 No. 9

    Diane Cooper interviews Dr. Gerald Epstein, MD about an innovative therapy based in a form of mental imagery called Waking Dream Therapy. He explains that most of our difficulties are rooted in disturbed or disordered relationships of one sort or another. As the mind and body form a unity, the physical illnesses are expressions of these relational difficulties. For example, diabetes, may speak to bitterness in ones life. Colon issues to holding on or anger.Dr. Epstein uses the ancient science of face reading (morphology)and waking dream/mental imagery to help his clients to heal and transform. Two sample imagery exercises are included here.Dr. Epstein, a physician and psychiatrist apprenticed with Madame Colette Aboulker- Muscat of Jerusalem for nine years to learn this therapeutic technique.

    application/pdf iconspirit of maat april 2010 interview with Gerald Epstein.pdf
    Relationships and the Waking Dream an interview with Gerald N. Epstein, MD by Diane M. Cooper
  • "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.
    2000
    application/pdf iconSeigel.pdf
  • "HEALER WITH A VISION"
    Jerusalem Post
    July 16, 1999
    application/pdf iconJerusalem Post 7-16-1999 Healer with a vision web.pdf
  • "The Science of Face Reading: A Practitioner’s Guide to Morphology"
    Advances: The Journal of Mind–Body Health, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 50–56.
    summer 1997
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  • "Alleviating Asthma with Mental Imagery: A Phenomenological Study"
    Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 42–52.
    January–February 1997

    Funded by OAM of NIH, and published in various medical journals in 1997

    application/pdf iconAlleviating_Asthma_with_Imagery.pdf
  • "The Healing Tradition of Western Spirituality"
    Spectrum Interview
    May ⁄June 1995
    application/pdf iconTheHealingTradition.pdf
  • "What’s Wrong with Freudianism: A Kabbalistic Perspective"
    Opening the Inner Gates, ed. E. Hoffman. Boston; Shambala, pp.61–74.
    1995
  • "Standing at Sinai: Time, Healing, and Re-Visioning Western Medicine"
    Opening the Inner Gates, ed. E. Hoffman. Boston; Shambala, pp 250–65.
    1995
  • "The Western Spiritual Medical Tradition: An interview with Gerald Epstein, MD"
    Body Mind Spirit
    December 1993
    application/pdf iconBody_Mind_Spirit_GE_Interview.pdf
  • "You Can Beat Allergies"
    Health Confidential
    August 1990
    application/pdf iconYou_Can_Beat_Allergies.pdf
  • "How to Use Your Own Power of Healing: It’s Not Supernatural"
    Health Confidential
    September, 1988
    application/pdf iconHow_to_Use_Own_Powers_for_Healing.pdf
  • "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
    application/pdf iconHow_To_Do_What_You_Want.pdf
  • "Reading Faces"
    Bottom Line
    July 15, 1987
    application/pdf iconReading_Faces.pdf
  • "For the One out of Four Who Suffers Chronic Pain"
    Privileged Information
    December 15, 1987
    application/pdf icon1_Out_of_4_With_Chronic_Pain.pdf
  • "Re–Viewing Death"
    Privileged Information
    1987
    application/pdf iconRe-Viewing_Death.pdf
  • "Bigger Immune System"
    Privileged Information
    November 15, 1986
    application/pdf iconBigger_Immune_System.pdf
  • "Hebraic Medicine"
    Advances, Institute for the Advancement of Health, Vol. 4, no. 1
    Spring 1987
    application/pdf iconHebraic_Medicine.pdf
  • "The Influence of Philosophy on Freud’s Psychoanalytic Tenets"
    Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 7, no. 2
    April 1987
  • "The Image in Medicine: Notes of a Clinician"
    Advances, Vol. 3, no. 1
    Winter 1986
    application/pdf iconThe_Image_in_Medicine.pdf
  • "Imagination"
    Brain Mind Bulletin, Vol. 11, no. 10
    May 26, 1986
    application/pdf iconBrain-Mind_Bulletin-Imagination.pdf
  • Journal of Psychiatry & Law
    editor–in–chief, including the writing of numerous editorials for this quarterly publication
    1973–1986
  • "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
  • The Revelatory World of Dreams
    Physician & Patient
    1/1983 (exact date unknown)

    Dr. Epstein presents a brief overview of  the history of dreams & how to read the messages they bring to enrich your life. In contrast to Freud's limited understanding of dreams as mere wish fulfillments, every element of a dream reflects some aspect of the dreamer, so the dreamer is actually looking into a mirror. The language of dreams can be quite concrete and colloquial speaking in the vernacular. They reveal inner guides, problem solve, signal a health issue. "For example, if the dream takes place in the past, it pertains to the influence of the past on the present. For instance, if a man of 40 dreams that he is in high school at age 14 and meets his high school principal with whom he feels fearful, very likely in the face of authority he still responds as a 14-year-old rather than as a mature adult." 

    application/pdf iconThe Revelatory World of Dreams (G. Epstein).pdf
  • "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
    application/pdf iconPhenomenological_Differences.pdf
  • "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
    application/pdf iconThe_Relationship_of_Healing_to_Imagination.pdf
  • "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
  • "Healing and Imagination"
    ReVision, pp. 48–51.
    Spring 1980
    application/pdf iconHealing_and_Imagination.pdf
  • "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
    application/pdf iconHealing_Implication.pdf
  • "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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