Standing in Two Worlds with Doctor Sam Juni -Episode 8 - What Price Longevity?

Longevity Pandora’s Box: The Burden on Family, Society, and DignityDoctor Juni is a man standing in two worlds, geographically residing inEretz Yisroelyet tethered to a distinguished career of achievement and successful family bonds in the US.The seven decades since 1950 has witnessed the sociological convulsions of race and gender identity and the ascent of relativism which upended millennia-old truths, even as it expanded a net of inclusion of the traditionally marginalized. Culturally, it resulted in two worlds of humanity whose boundaries are starkly drawn today. Prof. Juni analyzes what has happened to society and the personal experience of having existed in two drastically different worlds.Doctor Sam blessed with a capacity of detached observation and generally on the mark anticipation, has walked the divide and not fallen sway to easy platitudesthat herald a utopia to come.Persons post 65 (who, when retirement legislation was drawn up 90 years ago, were correctly seen as trodding a euphemistically described "golden path" to the grave) have benefited from scientific advancements in the understanding of disease and have easy access to the measures that stave off what in the past was the throes of death.This has led to a sharp increase in the median age of life with a much larger segment of the population post 80 than in any time in our recorded history.Many of these octogenarians are assailed by chronic health issues that put an incredible strain on the planet’s health care system as was brought to the fore with dramatic vibrancy in the first terrible weeks of Covid 19.A boon of this progress has been increased sensitivity that has been distilled to persons in middle age, leading many to gird their bodies and stimulate their minds to remain active and continue in powerful roles.This has come,however, at the expense of a more youthful majority who cannot be expected to wait for the Changing of the Guard....."from Rabbi Kivelevitz's introductionDoctor Samuel Juniis 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 inYeshivas Chaim Berlinunder Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as aTalmidof Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick.ProfessorJuni is a prominent member of theAssociation 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 important research.Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded onpsychometric methodologyand based on a psycho-dynamicpsychopathologyperspective.He is possibly the world's expert inDifferential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studiesentailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations.Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titledCross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments.Based inYerushalayim, 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 journalsto which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles.Many are available on lineJournal of Forensic PsychologyJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.International Review of VictimologyThe Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseInternational Forum of PsychoanalysisJournal of Personality AssessmentJournal of Abnormal PsychologyJournal of Psychoanalytic AnthropologyPsychophysiologyPsychology and Human DevelopmentJournal of Sex ResearchJournal of Psychology and JudaismContemporary Family TherapyAmerican Journal on AddictionsJournal of Criminal PsychologyMental Health, Religion & CulturePlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate