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Sanford L. Drob, Ph.D.
Sanford L. Drob is a Core Faculty Member in the Clinical Psychology
doctorate program of Fielding Graduate
University (www.fielding.edu). He
is also a member of the clinical faculty of New
York University Medical
School and was for many years the
Director of Psychological Assessment at Bellevue
Hospital in New
York. He holds doctorate degrees in Philosophy from
Boston University
and in Clinical Psychology from Long Island
University. In 1987 he
co-founded, and for several years served as editor-in-chief of the New
York Jewish Review, a publication addressing the interface between  traditional Judaism and contemporary
thought, and which featured interviews and debates amongst leading rabbis,
including Adin Steinsaltz, Moshe Tendler, David Bleich, and Norman Lamm,
articles on Jewish art, culture and cinema, guidelines for respectful dialog
between the various movements in American Jewry, and Dr. Drob's early essays
on Kabbalah and Hasidism. In addition to numerous publications in clinical,
forensic and philosophical psychology, Sanford Drob's articles on Jewish
philosophy have appeared in such journals as Tradition, The
Reconstructionist and Cross Currents. Dr. Drob is the grandson of Rabbi Max Drob, a disciple of Solomon Schechter
and one of the early leaders of the Conservative movement. In 1987 Dr. Drob
published a brief biography of his grandfather based upon archival materials
at the Jewish Theological Seminary and interviews with his grandfather's
contemporaries, including Rabbis Louis Finklestein, Simon Greenberg and
Mordecai Kaplan.
Sanford Drob has a long-standing interest in the psychological, social and
spiritual roots of criminality, and is known for his work with violent
offenders on Bellevue’s
Psychiatric Prison Ward (where he was Senior Psychologist from1984-2003) and
throughout the criminal justice system. He specializes in assessing the state
of mind of offenders at the time of their criminal acts, and has testified in
numerous homicide and other criminal trials.
Dr. Drob's philosophical and psychological interests originally led him to
the study of contemporary theology with Thomas J.J. Altizer at Stony Brook
and analytic philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology at Cornell and Boston
University. His philosophy
dissertation, which was written under the guidance of the Neo-Platonic
philosopher J.N. Findlay, was a study and critique of the philosophical psychology
of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Dr. Drob later went on to analyze the spirituality of
halakhic Judaism in Wittgensteinian terms. As a doctoral student in
clinical psychology he developed interests in the philosophical foundations
of the various psychotherapeutic schools, and took a special interest in
psychoanalytic and Jungian thought.
As a member of Brooklyn's Park Slope Jewish Center
and Congregation B'nai Jacob in the 1980s Dr. Drob became attracted to the
study of Hasidism. He studied Tanya with Rabbi Shimon Hecht and
developed an interest in the living spirit of Jewish mysticism as it is
expressed in the Chabad (Lubavitch) movement. For the past twenty
years he has engaged in intensive study of the Kabbalah, the problems of God,
Mind and Evil, and the relationship between Jewish Mysticism and other
traditions in the history of Western and Eastern thought. His books, Symbols
of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, and
Kabbalistic Metaphors: Jewish Mystical Themes in Ancient and Modern Thought,
were published by Jason Aronson in 2000 and are available at www.aronson.com (or see
"Books" on this website). Dr. Drob’s book, Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialog, will be available from
Peter Lang Publications early in 2009, and his Jung and the Kabbalah, will be published by Spring Journal Books
later this year. Dr Drob is currently working on a study of the coincidence
of opposites in philosophy, psychology and mysticism, exploring the
connections between psychotherapy and Jewish mysticism, developing a theory
of value, and writing a novel about the insanity defense, Jewish identity,
and mystical theology. Work in progress on several of these projects can be
seen on this website (Home | Jung and the
Kabbalah | Articles).
Sanford Drob's first two books are Symbols
of the Kabbalah and Kabbalistic
Metaphors .
Click here for a description of Brownstone
Brooklyn Psychological Services, for which Dr. Drob and his wife, Dr.
Liliana Rusansky Drob are co-directors.
Dr. Drob can be reached at 347 497-5740
Click here for Dr. Drob's CV in clinical and forensic
psychology.
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