Divine Therapy
Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 May 2003
- ISBN 9780198509813
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 234x154x15 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
There is mounting evidence that strong personal relationships and spiritual beliefs contribute to our well-being. In Divine Therapy, Janet Sayers employs a biographical approach to the lives and writings of a range of eminent psychotherapists, philosophers and psychologists to illuminate the link between physical and mental well-being and the 'at-one-ness' provided by love, religious and mystical experiences.
MoreLong description:
Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers, author of Mothering Psychoanalysis and Freudian Tales, provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy.
Divine Therapy is told through love stories. They highlight the risks and healing transformations of what some call 'at-one-ment' with another in love, mysticism, art and psychoanalysis. Sayers movingly explores this by drawing on the philosophical and psychological writings of William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sabina Spielrein, Simone Weil, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl, Melanie Klein, Adrian Stokes, Marion Milner and Donald Winnicott. She ends with one of the major figures of current psychoanalysis, Wilfred Bion, and with the insights of his followers, notably Christopher Bollas, Neville Symington and Julia Kristeva.
Illustrated with love letters, pictures, biographical details and case histories, Divine Therapy tells an intriguing chronicle of science, religion and therapy that also constitutes an engaging overview for students, specialists and general readers alike.
In writing Divine Therapy Sayers does a great service for psychoanalytic scholarship. Putting her focus on love, mysticism and religion, she requires us to look beyond the political battlefield that we call psychoanalytic theory and technique. She asks us to think about the ways in which passions can be transformative and enlivening in an individual's professional life, regardless of one's psychoanaltic allegiance. In the 1980's, singer Tina Turner soulfully belted out: "What's love got to do with it?" After reading Diving Therapy, I believe the answer to this question is: everything; at least when it comes to the work and well being of a psychoanalyst.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
William James: Divided Self
Sigmund Freud: Freeing Love
Carl Jung: Transforming Libido
Simone Weil: Awaiting God
Erich Fromm: Humanist Buddhism
Paul Tillich: Being Accepted
Viktor Frankl: Logotherapy
Melanie Klein: Healing Grace
Marion Milner: Recovering Mysticism
Donald Winnicott: Transitional Transcendence
Wilfred Bion: Transforming At-one-ment
Julia Kristeva: Mothering Holiness
Conclusion
