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DIVINE THERAPY
LOVE, MYSTICISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS |
| By: |
Janet Sayers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£82.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198509812 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198509813 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2003 |
| Pages: |
260 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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