Mortimer Ostow 
Spirit, Mind, and Brain [EPUB ebook] 
A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion

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Preeminent psychoanalyst Mortimer Ostow believes that early childhood emotional attachments form the cognitive underpinnings of spiritual experience and religious motivation. His hypothesis, which is verifiable, relies on psychological and neurobiological evidence but is respectful of the human need for spiritual value.
Ostow begins by classifying the three parts of the spiritual experience: awe, Spirituality proper, and mysticism. After he pinpoints the psychological origins of these feelings in infancy, he discusses the foundations of religious sentiment and practice and the brain processes associated with spiritual experience. He then focuses on spirituality’s relationship to mood regulation, and the role of negative spirituality in fostering religious fundamentalism and demonic possession.
Ostow concludes with an analysis of an essay by the psychoanalyst Donald M. Marcus, who recounts his own spiritual experience during a Native American-style ‘vision quest’ in the woods. Marcus’s account demonstrates the constructive potential of spirituality and the way in which spirituality retrieves and recapitulates feelings of attachment to the mother.
Persuasively and brilliantly argued, Spirit, Mind, and Brain brings the disciplines of religion, behavorial neuroscience, and philosophy to bear on a groundbreaking new method for understanding religious ritual and belief.

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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Spirit
3. Mind: The Psychodynamics of Awe, Spirituality, and Mysticism
4. Religion
5. Brain
6. Mood
7. Apocalypse
8. Demonic Spirituality: Infanticide, Self-Sacrifice, and Fundamentalism
9. Analyzing an Account of a Spiritual Experience
References
Index

Circa l’autore

Mortimer Ostow was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose experience included the last three major revolutions in psychiatry: psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, and neuroscience. As emeritus professor of pastoral psychiatry at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he saw himself as an informed amateur in the field of religion.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780231511209 ● Dimensione 16.9 MB ● Casa editrice Columbia University Press ● Città New York ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2006 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2456140 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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