Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism

by Dan Merkur

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur presents a clinical alternative to both the dismissal and the culturally relative endorsement of the client's religion, proposing a contemporary psychoanalytic distinction between wholesome spirituality and its symbolic and symptomatic displacements. Spirituality compatible with psychoanalysis is identified with the via negativa, "way of negating," that is found historically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765710153
• ISBN13: 9780765710154
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"