Marc Eichenbaum

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Mar 12, 2025, 10:56 PM

Living with Doubt: Amalek, Anxiety, & ACT

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Human beings crave certainty. We want to know that we are safe, that our choices are correct, and that the future will unfold in a predictable manner. However, much of life remains unknown and our future hangs in the...

Apr 11, 2024, 11:12 PM

Fighting Antisemitism with a Stiff Neck

“Non-Jews respect Jews who respect Judaism, and they are embarrassed by Jews who are embarrassed by Judaism.” – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks We will never return to the false sense of security we felt on Oct. 6. The massacre the next...

Jul 18, 2023, 12:27 PM

‘For These Things I Weep’: Psychological Readings of Lamentations

Originally published in thelehrhaus.com on August 4th, 2022. The Biblical book of Lamentations, Megillat Eikha, is fraught with both theological and textual inconsistencies, making it a difficult text to comprehend. Examples are manifold: Was the destruction of the Temple a result of...

Feb 22, 2023, 9:32 PM

Book Review: Attached by Rabbi Yakov Danishefsky

After World War II, the British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907-1990) studied child development by observing orphans. He noticed a phenomenon that all the theories of child development at the time could not explain. Namely, even children who...

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About Me

Marc Eichenbaum is completing his doctorate in psychology at the Ferkauf School of Psychology. He is a therapist at Achieve Behavioral Health in Rockland County, NY.