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In these three stories rabbis use certain psychotherapeutic devices to cure personality disturbances. In one case the uncovering of a sense of guilt was the therapeutic agent; in another, the reality situation is altered; in the third,
a magic amulet cures by suggestion. The stories demonstrate the rabbis' ingenuity rather than their psychiatric insight.