Judaism and mental health

Judaism has long recognized the significance of mental health and classic Judaic sources have documented observations of symptoms of mental illness. Research has implicated several culture-specific barriers among Jews in regards to treatment seeking, most notably family-centric stigma toward mental health treatment. The progressive decrease in social mistrust of the mental health field points to the fact that the time is ripe to continue efforts to build bridges between mental health practitioners, Jewish individual clients, and the Jewish community at large. Many of the relationships between Jewish religiosity and mental health have been found to bear relevance across the spectrum of affiliation