Christianity & Psychoanalysis – A New Conversation

Earl D. Bland, Brad D. Strawn (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2014
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-2856-2 (ISBN)

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The past 30 years has seen a theoretical and clinical renaissance in psychoanalysis, as well as a flourishing of Christian engagement in the fields of psychology and anthropology. This volume of essays stages a new conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis that opens up new ways of thinking about the rich mosaic of human experience.

Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology--focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation--on a strictly empirical basis. Given certain accounts of divine agency and human uniqueness, psychoanalytic work was often seen as competitive with a Christian understanding of the human person.
The contributors to Christianity and Psychoanalysis seek to start a new conversation. Aided by the turn to relationality in theology, as well as by a noncompetitive conception of God?s transcendence and agency, this book presents a fresh integration of Christian thought and psychoanalytic theory. The immanent processes identified by psychoanalysis need not compete with Christian theology but can instead be the very means by which God is involved in human existence. The Christian study of psychoanalysis can thus serve the flourishing of God?s kingdom.
Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.

Earl D. Bland (PsyD, Illinois School of Professional Psychology) is professor of psychology and chair of the department of behavioral sciences at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. Brad D. Strawn (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the Integration of Psychology and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology. He is coauthor (with Warren S. Brown) of The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology and the Church.

1 A New Conversation

Earl D. Bland and Brad D. Strawn

2 Tradition-Based Integration

Ron Wright, Paul Jones and Brad D. Strawn

3 Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis

Brad D. Strawn

4 Ecumenical Spirituality, Catholic Theology and Object Relations Theory: A Threefold Cord Holding Sacred Space

Theresa Tisdale

5 Self Psychology and Christian Experience

Earl D. Bland

6 Intersubjective Systems Theory

Mitchell W. Hicks

7 Relational Psychoanalysis

Lowell W. Hoffman

8 Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Therapy and Christianity: Being-in-Relation

Todd W. Hall and Lauren E. Maltby

9 Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy: An Introduction and Integration

Earl D. Bland

10 Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy

Michael W. Mangis

11 Christianity and Psychoanalysis: Final Thoughts

Brad D. Strawn and Earl D. Bland

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List of Contributors

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.4.2014
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 229 mm
Gewicht	465 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-2856-7 / 0830828567
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-2856-2 / 9780830828562
Zustand	Neuware