Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience

In this provocative book, W. W. Meissner, a Jesuit and psychoanalyst, attempts to bring about a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and religious thinking. Utilizing the resources of modern psychoanalytic insight, he examines Freud's views on religion, explores the dialectical relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, and applies more contemporary concepts in psychoanalysis to the understanding of religious experience. "Dr. Meissner has written a book which is consistently interesting, often challenging, and impressive for its wide range of scholarship in two fields not often combined in the same work. . . . Dr. Meissner has done us a service in this scholarly work by demonstrating how two perspectives of the human condition have over the course of the last several decades come to similar conclusions."-Otto F. Thaler, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Religion "A rich and stimulating book addressing important issues that lie at the intersection of psychoanalysis and religion."-Paul C. Vitz, Contemporary Psychology "Meissner has made a challenging useful contribution that will be pondered, applied, and debated. It will undoubtedly also achieve the goal of bringing about more understanding between analysts and theologians."-Lowell Rubin, M.D., Newsletter, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Politics & Social Sciences

Meissner, W.W.

Philosophy

Yale Univ Pr

The Dynamics of Human Aggression: Theoretical Foundations, Clinical Applications

This book seeks to resolve an issue that has divided psychoanalysts and other scholars of aggression for decades, namely the nature of aggression. The work expands and unifies the Freudian drive-based explanation of aggression into contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice and brings Freudian theory into the 21st Century.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rizzuto, Ana-María

Buie, Dan H.

Mental Health

Routledge

Explores the contributions that psychoanalysis can make to the study of ethics, and vice versa. Addressing the common ground between ethics and psychoanalysis, W. W. Meissner asks “Does psychoanalysis have anything to contribute to ethical understanding and reflection?” and conversely, “Does ethics have anything to offer analytic understanding of the complexities of human behavior and decision-making?” Both disciplines focus their interest and concern not only on the inner well-being of the individual, but also on questions of his or her adaptation to the outside world, including both intimate personal relations as well as broader societal and communal relations. This book explores and explicates areas of interaction and common interest between these two disciplines in the hope of opening the way to further exploration and dialogue in the understanding of the human phenomenon.

The Ethical Dimension of Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue (Psychoanalysis and Culture)

State University of New York Press

Paperback. Very good. Previous owner's name stamp on half title page.

The Cultic Origins of Christianity: The Dynamics of Religious Development

History

World

Liturgical Pr

Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, and his works are known to millions. Less familiar is the powerful religious dynamic that played a central role in his life and provided a pervasive motivational thrust that was reflected in some of his greatest artistic achievements. The various components of this religious dimension are explored and their dynamic underpinnings discussed. The manner in which these psychic forces came into play and found expression in his life and art is developed, including the almost mystical aspect of his most sublime efforts.

Vincent's Religion: The Search for Meaning (The Reshaping of Psychoanalysis)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Internalization in Psychoanalysis

Psychology & Counseling

Intl Universities Pr Inc

To the Greater Glory: A Psychological Study of Ignatian Spirituality (Marquette Studies in Theology)

Marquette Univ Pr

This book begins with Strachey's statement of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis representing the classical psychoanalytical technique that prevailed in the 1930s. Then Meissner takes up the shifts in thinking that have subsequently evolved. Today we hold a more relational concept of the therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. This places greater emphasis on the vicissitudes of relational involvements than on specific interpretive techniques. Emphasis is given to collaborative efforts between patient and analyist as central to the working of the analytic process. Factors such as empathy, interpretation and positive and negative transference to the therapeutic alliance are explored.

What Is Effective in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Move from Interpretation to Relation

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and therapeutic approaches to it for a wide variety of clinical syndromes, particularly the psychoses, borderline states and narcissistic disorders. Meissner also discusses clinical problems concerning adolescence, ageing, suicide and addiction.

Psychotherapy and the Paranoid Process

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