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The Hidden Language. The book combines two main perspectives the study of the social unconscious and the study of fairy tales. Examining different versions of fairy tales told by different ethnic communities teaches us about the relations between universal and local/cultural aspects of the social unconscious.
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Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction 1 , "Giving one's heart" and "speaking from the bottom of the heart": the case of the Jewish mother in Eastern European tales , "Asked for her hand" and the tales about the handless maiden: how is taking the hand associated with a marriage proposal? , "Living in her skin": social skin-ego and the maiden who enters others' skins in fairy tales , Eyes and envy: reading Grimms' One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes and its Jewish parallels , "I (do not) see what you mean": the concrete and metaphoric dimensions of blindness in fairy tales and the social mind , "To step into someone's shoes": the tales about Cinderella , Fire of lust: passion and greed in fairy tales and the social (un)conscious , "To eat a crow" (swallow frogs): a story of decrees and humiliation , Epilogue
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Ravit Raufman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and group therapist. She is senior lecturer and faculty member at the University of Haifa, Israel; a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; and a board member of the International Journal of Group psychotherapy. Her work explores psychoanalytical approaches to fairy-tales, the affinity between fairy-tales and dreams, and thought processes in fairy-tales and groups.Haim Weinberg is a Californian and Israeli licensed psychologist and group analyst. He is Past-president of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society and the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. He is the director of an international doctorate program in psychology with an emphasis on group psychotherapy at the Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, California, where he serves as the academic Vice President.
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The book combines two main perspectives: the study of the social unconscious and the study of fairy tales. Examining different versions of fairy tales told by different ethnic communities teaches us about the relations between universal and local/cultural aspects of the social unconscious.
