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Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development. book cover

1st Edition

Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development.

By Helen L Holmes Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link prenatal and perinatal experiences to the origins of these unconscious underpinnings of our shared images... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 Rizzuto and Freud: Parental origins of images of God

2 Klein and Bion: The intrauterine in relation to images of God

3 The not knowing position in relation to pre and perinatal life

4 Perinatal origins of images of God

5 Epigenesis, attachment and images of God

6 The question of pre- and perinatal underpinnings of God images

7 Prenatal religious affect

8 Conclusions

Bibliography

Biography

Helen Holmes is a clinical and academic supervisor, having written and taught courses at top universities, alongside developing a new approach to self-harm cessation and suicide amongst adolescents. Helen is a group and individual therapist on a psychosis unit at Maudsley Hospital, alongside working in private practice with children, young people, families, couples and adults.　

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