Christianity & Psychoanalysis
Christianity & Psychoanalysis

Christianity & Psychoanalysis

A New Conversation

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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 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.
ISBN: 9780830895885
Producer: InterVarsity Press
Weight: 0.001kg
Binding: Digital delivered electronically
File size: 769.7KB
Release Date: 11.04.2014
Language: English

Book contents

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

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Brad D. Strawn(Editor)
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 has post-doctoral training in psychoanalysis and is a licensed psychologist. He is coauthor (with Warren S. Brown) of (2012, Cambridge) and coeditor of (Cambridge). Strawn has also published widely on psychology, psychoanalysis and Wesleyan theology.
Earl D. Bland(Editor)
Earl D. Bland (Psy.D., Illinois School of Professional Psychology) is professor of psychology and chair of the department of behavioral sciences at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. He is a practicing psychologist with certificates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Greater Kansas City/Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute and from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. For the and the Bland has published on topics such as narcissism in marriage, accounts of rape in the Bible and the possibility of collaboration between the church and the psychological establishment.