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Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel book cover

1st Edition

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

By Paul Marcus Copyright 2021
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and... Read more

Acknowledgments

  1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis as a spiritual discipline

  2. The spirit of love

  3. The spirit of work

  4. The spirit of faith

  5. The spirit of suffering

  6. Towards a spiritualization of psychoanalysis

Biography

Paul Marcus is a training and supervisory analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City and co- chairperson of the discussion group Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings. He is the author/ editor of 21 books, including Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin.

"A profoundly human exploration of significant dimensions of experience touching many aspects of our being. It is a pleasure to wander and wonder with it through mysteries of human engagement." - Michael Eigen, author, The Challenge of Being Human, Faith, and The Sensitive Self

"...this book is a testament to the fact that a meaningful and more fulfilling life, a life in which one flourishes, is possible." Geoffrey Karabin, review in Marcel Studies, Vol. 8, Issue No. 1

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