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Author(s): Sorenson, Randall Lehmann
ISBN(s): 9781134906505, 1134906501
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 77.85 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1134906501 
ISBN 13: 9781134906505
Author: Randall Lehmann Sorenson

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.

Minding Spirituality 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Minding Spirituality

  • Defining Spirituality and Religion

  • Three Ways of “Minding” Spirituality

  • Relational Psychoanalysis

  • A Brief Interlude: My Own Journey

  • A Concluding Clinical Illustration

Chapter 2: Ongoing Change in Psychoanalytic Theory — Implications for Analysis of Religious Experience

  • Freud as Founder: Haunting Ghost or Formative Forefather?

  • Illusion

  • Narrative

  • Constructivism

  • Further Considerations for Future Studies

Chapter 3: How Being “Religious” Was Treated in Psychoanalytic Journals From 1920 to 1994

  • By Christine Hebert Benson

Chapter 4: The Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Spirituality

  • A Philosophical Objection

  • A Clinical Objection

  • A Pedagogical Objection

  • Method

  • What I Measured

  • Latent Variables

  • An Empirical Test of Narrative Truth

  • Results

  • Discussion

  • An Orthogonal Narrative?

  • Two Clinical Illustrations

  • The Faint, Sweet Smell of Apologetics — But Whose?

Chapter 5: The Analyst’s Experience of the Patient’s Religion — Clinical Considerations

  • God as a Corresponding Object

  • God as a Compensatory Object

  • Interacting with Anne

  • God as Object χ

  • Graduation

Chapter 6: Psychoanalytic Institutes As Religious Denominations — Fundamentalism, Progeny, and Ongoing Reformation

  • Idealization of Science and University Life

  • Kelley’s “Strictness” Hypothesis

  • Fundamentalism and Progeny in Psychoanalysis

  • Ongoing Reformation

  • Structuring Psychoanalytic Education

Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis and Religion — Are They In the Same Business?

  • Warfare

  • Secularization

  • Foundationalism

  • Practice Meets Practice

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