Vaeira: Freedom to Choose in the Absence of Alternatives
One of the greatest strengths and fallacies of the human condition is our tendency to desire predictability and repetition. While these...
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Miri Korbman
- Jan 6, 2021
- 6 min
Shemos: Making Sense of Desensitization
As the pandemic and its far-reaching consequences continue to affect us in many areas of our lives, many people have been talking about...
Miri Korbman
- Jan 1, 2021
- 6 min
Vayechi: A Matter of Life and Death
Mortality is one of the greatest fears and woes of every living being. From the moment we are born, we instinctually know that our time...
Miri Korbman
- Dec 23, 2020
- 5 min
Vayigash: More than Saying Sorry
Forgiveness is both a powerful tool and complicated enterprise in promoting interpersonal connection and psychological wellbeing. Step...
Miri Korbman
- Dec 16, 2020
- 6 min
Mikeitz: Forget Me Not
Forgetting is a fascinating human phenomenon. There are multiple areas of the brain responsible for memory, and there are different kinds...
Miri Korbman
- Dec 10, 2020
- 5 min
Vayeishev: Don't Settle
There is a troubling Rashi at the beginning of this week’s Parsha that, when explored in depth, reveals an important spiritual lesson and...
Miri Korbman
- Dec 3, 2020
- 5 min
Vayishlach: On Being Alone
In July 2014, a series of experiments conducted by Dr. Timothy Wilson and his colleagues at University of Virginia and Harvard were...
Miri Korbman
- Nov 26, 2020
- 6 min
Vayeitzei: Pausing in the Pandemonium
There are many ways to learn and gain inspiration from the Torah text, and assessing the structure and textual architecture of the...
Miri Korbman
- Nov 19, 2020
- 6 min
Toldos: Personality Wise
Personality psychology has garnered much attention in the last few decades. As part of understanding humanity and the characteristics...
Miri Korbman
- Nov 13, 2020
- 6 min
Chayei Sara: Loss and Legacy
In the last week, the Jewish community suffered two gargantuan losses with the passing of HaRav Dovid Feinstein z”l and Rabbi Lord...
Miri Korbman
- Nov 4, 2020
- 5 min
Vayera: Response Ability
In March 1964, the assault and murder of a young woman named Kitty Genovese sparked horror and outrage when the New York Times reported...
Miri Korbman
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
Lech Lecha: Boundaries and Benevolence
A quick search for the term “boundaries” in Psychology Today will yield 7,943 blog posts and 229 articles all discussing this important...
Miri Korbman
- Oct 21, 2020
- 7 min
Noach: A Righteous Man of the Earth
Like many characters in Tanach, Noach is singularly righteous and enigmatic. Often, in the descriptions of Biblical personalities, it is...
Miri Korbman
- Oct 14, 2020
- 5 min
Bereishis: Where We Are and How We Got Here
Understanding and analyzing the pathways of human behavior is a focal point of both research and practice and allows patients,...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 23, 2020
- 7 min
Haazinu and Yom Kippur 5781: The Possibility to Heal
Beth* had spent most of her adolescence in and out of psychiatric inpatient units and had already been in individual therapy for three...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 8, 2020
- 7 min
Nitzavim-Vayelech: The Frog, the Fish, and the Freedom to Choose
There is a particularly gruesome “How To” project about which you have probably never been curious, and which is an integral metaphor for...
Miri Korbman
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Ki Savo: Owning the Narrative
Though there is a great deal of debate in the field of psychology regarding the relevance of one’s past to his or her current concerns or...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 26, 2020
- 5 min
Ki Seitzei: Radical Root of Teshuva
In November 1785, after accidentally upending a mouse’s nest with his plow, Scottish farmer and poet Robert Burns penned the heartfelt...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
Shoftim: Law and Disorder
Like my ninth grade classmates and I, some of you might have had the dubious honor of reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The...
Miri Korbman
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
Re'eh: It's Not a Contest
In the introduction to her incredibly moving and thought-provoking memoir “The Choice,” psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eva...
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