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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
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
References
List of Contributors
Index
Sobre o autor
Brad D. Strawn (Ph D, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the Integration of Psychology and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has post-doctoral training in psychoanalysis and is a licensed psychologist. He is coauthor (with Warren S. Brown) of The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology and the Church and coeditor of Christianity and Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation.
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