Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy
coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many
analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both
psychoanalytic and religious experience and have explored how their
respective narrative underpinnings may be remarkably similar. In
Toward Mutual Recognition, Marie T. Hoffman takes just such an
approach. Coming from a Christian perspective, she suggests that
the current relational turn in psychoanalysis has been influenced
by numerous theorists - analysts and philosophers alike - who were
themselves shaped by an embedded Christian narrative. As a result,
the redemptive concepts of incarnation, crucifixion, and
resurrection - central to the tenets of Christianity - can be
traced to relational theories, emerging analogously in the
transformative process of mutual recognition in the concepts of
identification, surrender, and gratitude, a trilogy which she
develops as forming the "path of recognition." Each movement on
this path of recognition is given thought-provoking, in-depth
attention. Chapters dedicated to theoretical perspectives utilize
the thinking of Benjamin, Hegel, and Ricoeur. In her historical
perspectives, she explores the personal and professional histories
of analysts such as Sullivan, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Erikson, Kohut,
and Ferenczi, among others, who were influenced by the Christian
narrative. Uniting it all together is the clinical perspective
offered in the compelling extended case history of Mandy, a young
lady whose treatment embodies and exemplifies each of the steps
along the path of growth in both the psychoanalytic and Christian
senses. Throughout, a relational sensibility is deployed as a
cooperative counterpart to the Christian narrative, working both as
a consilient dialogue and a vehicle for further integrative
exploration. As a result, the specter of psychoanalysis and
religion as mutually exclusive gives way to the hope and redemption
offered by their mutual recognition.
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