November 14, 2021

Standing in Two Worlds with Doctor Sam Juni-Episode 50-Jingling the Chanukah Guilt-Comfort Food & Self-Calming Habits: Are They Really Bad for You?

37 minutes

With the Channukah season replete with latkes and chocolates on the horizon, Rabbi Kivelevitz focuses on the snacking response to overcome unpleasantries. He questions if there is an implicit maladjustment in such behavior. Responding with an emphatic “No,” Doctor Juni elaborates the warning signals of excess and pathology of behaviors which are typically in the normal realm. Referencing Psychosexual Developmental Theory, Juni explores the common go-to repertoires which we all use in stressful situations. Highlighting illustrative examples of unusual coping strategies, Kivelevitz proposes that problematic parenting styles may promote psychopathology in interpersonal relationships, anxiety management, and self-concept among teens and young adults. As Kivelevitz suggests that these pathologies, respectively, may be attributed directly to undue parental strictness and exaggerations, Juni points out that excessive indulgencies in early childhood (e.g. around feeding and toilet training -- – and more so in the area of sexuality) often yield negative development repercussions which are just as damaging as those of over-control.

Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Professor Juni is a board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in cutting-edge research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed the NYU Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles; many are available online: Journal of Forensic Psychology; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma; International Review of Victimology; The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; International Forum of Psychoanalysis; Journal of Personality Assessment; J

Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Psychophysiology; Psychology and Human Development; Journal of Sex Research; Journal of Psychology and Judaism; Contemporary Family Therapy; American Journal on Addictions; Journal of Criminal Psychology; Mental Health, Religion, and Culture.

As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT. Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiur in Tshuvos and Poskim. Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America.

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