ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection and conflict among homosexuality, orthodox Judaism, and contemporary mental health theory and practice. The issue of homosexuality within the orthodox community about mental health has generated major points of disagreement and opprobrium when it comes to mental health referral and treatment. In large measure, orthodox Jewry has continued to seek a solution to the “homosexual problem” and still maintains this solution is to be found through conversion treatments. The authors, from a contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of self-states, attempt to find ways to bridge what they refer to as the “incommensurable” gaps between Jewish orthodoxy and queerness.
