Front Matter -- Half Title page -- MAIMONIDES' CURE OF SOULS -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Content -- 1. The Will to Illness -- ARISTOTELIAN PREMISES OF MAIMONIDES' PSYCHOLOGY -- ARISTOTELIAN FORMS -- ACTUALIZATION -- AL-FARABI'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- MAIMONIDES' BEHAVIORAL THERAPY -- SIN CAUSES IGNORANCE -- REPENTANCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- 2. Worship of the Heart -- THE COMMANDMENTS OF MONOTHEISTIC BELIEFS AND AFFECTS -- MAIMONIDES' CURRICULUM -- MAIMONIDES' INTELLECTUALIST MYSTICISM -- THE RATIONAL CHARACTER OF MAIMONIDES' INTELLECTUALIST MYSTICISM -- MAIMONIDES' PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD -- THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF MEDITATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3. Imagination and the Interpretation of Prophecy -- IMAGINATION AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM -- INTELLECTUALIST MYSTICISM AND PROPHECY -- DREAMS AND VISIONS OF PROPHECY -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF IMAGINATION -- THE PLACE OF IMAGINATION IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE -- THE PROPHECIES OF ABRAHAM -- CONFIRMATION FROM EZEKIEL -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4. Perplexity and the World to Come -- MAIMONIDES' ESOTERICISM -- THE WORLD TO COME -- THE THIRTEEN FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW -- THE FOUR WHO ENTERED PARADISE -- MONISTIC MYSTICAL UNION -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5. Secrets of the Law -- ARAYOT -- THE ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNING -- MAIMONIDES ON SEXUALITY -- THE ACCOUNT OF THE CHARIOT -- CONCLUSIONS -- 6. Maimonides' Psychotherapy Client Population -- 7. Convergences of Maimonides and Freud -- FREUD'S ACCESS TO MAIMONIDES -- DREAM INTERPRETATION -- THE PRIVILEGED PLACE OF SEXUALITY -- SOCIOCULTURAL CONFLICT MODEL -- THEORIES OF PATHOLOGY AND THERAPY -- PSYCHIC REALITY -- UNDERSTANDING ON ONE'S OWN -- THE UNCONSCIOUS -- VIEWS OF JUDAISM -- PROPHETIC AMBITION -- CONCLUSIONS -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.