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What is the truth about the universe and its inhabitants? Helen
Oppenheimer has carried out a balanced and rational inquiry into
the existence of God to bring us closer to answering this question.
Here she uses her findings to construct and argue her case for a
responsible Christian faith, rooted firmly in the facts. 'Christian
Faith for Handing On' offers readers a progress report on the live
possibility of faith in an era of human suffering that can, at
times, seem to render it futile. The author deftly tackles
difficult questions and deconstructs objections to Christianity to
equip and reassure believers, showing how they can learn from the
sceptics in order to eschew comfortable complacency in favour of
reason. This engaging and thought-provoking work will grip and
challenge thinking Christians and atheist enquirers alike with its
current and comprehensive apologia of Humanist Christian faith.
Oppenheimer's scholarly approach ensures that the book will also
prove an invaluable resource for academics and students of theology
and philosophy.
Michael Balint is above all known for the "Balint Groups", which
came to be a generic term for groups involved with the training of
doctors and caregivers in the patient-caregiver relationship.
Despite this, the origin and full import of his work has been
somewhat overlooked. Helene Oppenheim-Gluckman provides us with a
concise account of how reading Balint has enriched psychoanalytic
theory and its practice by broadening the indications for the
psychoanalytic cure and the debate on psychotherapies and the
training to the professional care-giver-patient relation. Reading
Michael Balint: A pragmatic clinician shows how Balint must be
considered as one of the major figures in the British Independent
School of psychoanalysis, along with Winnicott and Fairbairn.
Oppenheim-Gluckman argues that his ideas, and the implications of
his work with groups of medical practitioners, have remained hugely
influential within modern psychoanalysis and training in medical
psychology. Reading Michael Balint presents a clear overview of the
main tenets of his work. It provides a fresh perspective on
Balint's contribution and its importance for modern object
relations theory and practice and brief psychotherapy. It will be
an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic
psychotherapists, counsellors and trainee psychoanalysts and
doctors. Helene Oppenheim-Gluckman is a psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, and has a doctorate in fundamental psychopathology
and practises in Paris. She is a member of the Societe de
Psychanalyse Freudienne, the Societe Medicale Balint, and a Balint
Group "leader". She has published several books and a number of
articles in psychoanalytic, medical, psychiatric and
political-cultural journals.
Michael Balint is above all known for the "Balint Groups", which
came to be a generic term for groups involved with the training of
doctors and caregivers in the patient-caregiver relationship.
Despite this, the origin and full import of his work has been
somewhat overlooked. Helene Oppenheim-Gluckman provides us with a
concise account of how reading Balint has enriched psychoanalytic
theory and its practice by broadening the indications for the
psychoanalytic cure and the debate on psychotherapies and the
training to the professional care-giver-patient relation. Reading
Michael Balint: A pragmatic clinician shows how Balint must be
considered as one of the major figures in the British Independent
School of psychoanalysis, along with Winnicott and Fairbairn.
Oppenheim-Gluckman argues that his ideas, and the implications of
his work with groups of medical practitioners, have remained hugely
influential within modern psychoanalysis and training in medical
psychology. Reading Michael Balint presents a clear overview of the
main tenets of his work. It provides a fresh perspective on
Balint's contribution and its importance for modern object
relations theory and practice and brief psychotherapy. It will be
an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic
psychotherapists, counsellors and trainee psychoanalysts and
doctors. Helene Oppenheim-Gluckman is a psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, and has a doctorate in fundamental psychopathology
and practises in Paris. She is a member of the Societe de
Psychanalyse Freudienne, the Societe Medicale Balint, and a Balint
Group "leader". She has published several books and a number of
articles in psychoanalytic, medical, psychiatric and
political-cultural journals.
In "What a Piece of Work: On Being Human," Oppenheimer considered
humankind as part of the natural universe which Christians believe
God set in motion. In this volume, she leaves aside comparisons
with our fellow creatures in order to attend to our own experience.
This is a small book on a large subject: what is special about
human beings? Hamlet mused, 'What a piece of work is man! How noble
in reason! how like a god!' but went on to speak of 'this
quintessence of dust'. Helen Oppenheimer prefers to start with the
dust and move to the glory: we really are animals - and from these
animals has come Shakespeare. People are indeed 'miserable sinners'
- and also magnificent creatures. The author does not disguise that
she is a Christian theologian whose subject is ethics, but she
writes equally for non-Christians. Her invitation to the reader is:
here is a way of looking at things that I find exciting and
convincing - I hope you do too.
Human beings have to ask how faith is possible, in this mixed world
of trouble and joy. A safe universe with no scope for adversity
would be a mechanical toy, not a creation. A glorious universe will
be a place where troubles have eventually been overcome. Christians
believe in one God, who is three Persons. God the heavenly Father
took the risk of making a real world, full of living people capable
of happiness. Jesus Christ, God the Son, came as a human being to
take responsibility for creation. He suffered and died; and he rose
from death to vindicate the whole enterprise and show that creation
can and will be made good. People are not left to work out their
own faith but are invited to belong to the church, in order to keep
in touch with God the Spirit. They are to behave as God's children,
not by rule-bound conformity but by grateful response to the glory
of God the Holy Trinity. "Two words which enter my mind whenever I
read Helen Oppenheimer are clarity and humanity. Her philosophical
care and rich embrace of Christian Humanism are at the heart. Life
unfolds with meaning when there is a loving God who creates and
redeems. Helen's knowledge and love of both the Christian and the
English literary traditions show just how rich is this faith to
hand on." -- Rt Revd Stephen Platten, Bishop of Wakefield, Bishop's
Lodge "Helen Oppenheimer is unusual in combining a finely honed
philosophical mind with a lucid, friendly, informal style.
Rigorously honest in facing the difficulties of believing in God
today, at the same time she does not sell the Christian faith
short. Drawing on a lifetime of experience and reflection, not
least from family life, she gives us here a lovely legacy that will
help many not only to believe, doubts and all, but to live out the
faith with a deepening spiritual conviction." --Lord Harries of
Pentregarth, retired Bishop of Oxford Helen Oppenheimer graduated
at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in philosophy. She is married with
three married daughters, ten grandchildren, and a great-grandson.
She has served on several Anglican commissions and taught ethics at
Cuddesdon Theological College. She writes on Christian ethics and
philosophical theology and holds a Lambeth DD. Her books include
The Hope of Heaven (1988) and On Being Someone (2010). She and her
husband live in Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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