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Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis - The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip (Paperback)
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Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis - The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip (Paperback)
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Harry S. Guntrip is best known for his affiliation with two other
psychoanalysts in the British Independent tradition of
psychoanalysis: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald Winnicott. Trevor Dobbs
traces the influences on the development of Guntrip's clinical and
theological thinking in the context of the tension between religion
and psychoanalysis. The central feature was a series of polarities
- theoretical and personal - conflicts with which he wrestled
theologically, psychologically, and interpersonally both
professionally and in his own personality. A critical evaluation of
the outcome of Guntrip's own psychoanalyses with Fairbairn and
Winnicott shows the autobiographical nature of his theoretical
analysis of schizoid phenomena: a psychological state of
self-preoccupation and way of being in the world. TREVOR M. DOBBS,
PhD, is Core Faculty in the Marriage and Family Therapy Department
at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California, and a Supervising
and Training Psychoanalyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute,
Tustin and Pasadena, California. "Barth wrote that theological
existence is the personal existence of the 'little theologian'
which is to participate totally in the problematic aspects of the
self in community with others. In his exquisite excursion into the
influences on Guntrip's life and practice, Trevor Dobbs probes the
self's regressive dependence upon the other as an implicit
theological existence for which God is the only reality sufficient
to sustain the self in its paradoxical quest for relation and
autonomy. Reading this reminded me that to be an authentic
conversation that includes God, self and others, theology is
autobiographical. This is a book that will stimulate and extend
that conversation." - Ray S. Anderson, Fuller Theological Seminary
"In the century-long dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion,
analysts have largely ignored the degree to which religious
orientations and concepts might play a role in the development of
psychoanalytic thinking and theorizing. Dobbs' careful study brings
this perspective into dramatic focus. The pivotal figure is Harry
Guntrip - a complex figure, both Congregational minister and
psychoanalyst. Dobbs shows the impact of Guntrip's upbringing and
beliefs on his psychoanalytic theories. More interesting was his
involvement with two psychoanalyic giants - Ronald Fairbairn and
Donald Winnicott. Dobbs' detailed analysis reveals how the
interactions among the members of this psychoanalytic troika were
powerfully shaped and guided by their religious backgrounds and
religious commitments. We learn about the reverberations of
Guntrip's Wesleyan Congregationalism, Fairbairn's Calvinistic
Presbyterianism, and Winnicott's revivalist Methodism on their
respective approaches to psychoanalysis and how Guntrip was
influenced by Fairburn and Winnicott. The implications speak to the
issues of how religion and religious persuasions play a role in how
we as analysts think about analysis. This realization opens a broad
new territory for exploration and analytic understanding for those
interested in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion, a
dialogue that really is a two-way conversation. Dobbs'
reconstruction is an important and valuable contribution - one that
enriches our understanding of psychoanalysis itself and that
interested readers would be well-advised to ponder." - W.W.
Meissner, SJ, MD, Boston College
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