272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Traditional concepts of God are no longer tenable for many people who nevertheless experience a strong sense of the sacred in their lives. The Religious Function of the Psyche offers a psychological model for the understanding of such experience, using the language and interpretive methods of depth psychology, particularly those of C.G. Jung and psychoanalytic self psychology. The problems of... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The new psychological dispensation, 1 THE RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY, 2 PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY BASED ON CONTACT WITH THE NUMINOSUM, 3 THE TRANSPERSONAL SELF, 4 THE ARCHETYPE AS SYNTHETIC PRINCIPLE, 5 MYTHICAL, SYMBOLIC AND IMAGINAL ASPECTS OF THE PSYCHE’S RELIGIOUS FUNCTION, 6 A PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW OF SOME TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS IDEAS, 7 A DEPTH PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING, 8 SUFFERING, 9 SIN AND EVIL, 10 PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, 11 THE RATIONALE FOR A CONTEMPLATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Appendix, Notes, References, Index
Biography
Lionel Corbett
