Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland

by Gavin Miller

Book Overview

Exploring the entanglement of religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland
Far from being washed away by the tide of secularization that swept post-war United Kingdom, one of the ways in which Christianity in Scotland survived, and transformed itself, was by drawing on the alliances that it had built earlier in the century with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was seen as a way to purify Christianity, and to propel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474446973
• ISBN13: 9781474446976
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"