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Minding Spirituality (Hardcover, New)
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Minding Spirituality (Hardcover, New)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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In Minding Spirituality, Randall Sorenson, a clinical
psychoanalyst, "invites us to take an interest in our patients'
spirituality that is respectful but not diffident, curious but not
reductionistic, welcoming but not indoctrinating." Out of this
invitation emerges a fascinating and broadening investigation of
how contemporary psychoanalysis can "mind" spirituality in the
threefold sense of being bothered by it, of attending to it, and of
cultivating it. Both the questions Sorenson asks, and the answers
he begins to formulate, reflect progressive changes in the
psychoanalytic understanding of spirituality. Sorenson begins by
quantitatively analyzing 75 years of journal literature and
documenting how psychoanalytic approaches to religious and
spiritual experiences have evolved far beyond the "wholesale
pathologizing of religion" prevalent during Freud's lifetime. Then,
in successive chapters, he explores and illustrates the kind of
clinical technique appropriate to the modern treatment of religious
issues. And the issue of technique is consequential in more than
one way -- Sorenson presents evidence that how analysts work
clinically has a greater impact on their patients' spirituality
than the patients' own parents have. Sorenson brings an array of
disciplinary perspectives to bear in examining the multiple
relationships among psychoanalysis, religion, and spirituality.
Empirical analysis, psychoanalytic history, sociology of religion,
comparative theory, and sustained clinical interpretation all enter
into his effort to open a dialogue that is clinically relevant.
Turning traditional critiques of psychoanalytic training on their
head, he argues that psychoanalytic education has much to learn
from models of contemporary theological education. Beautifully
crafted and engagingly written, Minding Spirituality not only
invites interdisciplinary dialogue but, via Sorenson's wide-ranging
and passionately open-minded scholarship, exemplifies it.
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