Main description:

Accessibly written introduction to a new analytic tradition. Discusses the tensions arising between this emerging school of thought and the existing body of psychoanalytic knowledge. Explores the unique ways in which this approach refers to and understands core analytic issues such as transference, interpretation, psychopathology and psychic development

Contents:

Introduction: A breath of life Part I - Spirituality in context 1. Things in heaven and earth: Psychoanalysis and spirit 2. A very peculiar science: A brief cultural history of psychoanalysis Part II - A spiritual model 3. Religious instinct, sacred unconscious and the area of faith: Towards a new model of the psyche 4. God-representations, mystical addictions and spiritual bypasses: Adaptive treatment goals 5. Morality, selflessness, transcendence: Transformative treatment goals Part III - Essential spirituality 6. The window is the absence of the wall: Psychoanalysis as a spiritual practice 7. A love through cure: The spirit of analytic relationship Conclusion: Ecstasy and suffering resting in one another: The contribution of spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis