Relating to God Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur presents a clinical alternative to both the dismissal and the culturally relative endorsement of the client's religion, proposing a contemporary psychoanalytic distinction between wholesome spirituality and its symbolic and symptomatic displacements. Spirituality compatible with psychoanalysis is identified with the via negativa, "way of negating," that is found historically in selected Christian and Jewish encounters with God.

About the author

Dan Merkur, PhD, is a clinical psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto and a faculty member at both the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Living Institute. He is also a visiting scholar in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Relating to God is his fourteenth book.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Merkur, Daniel Merkur
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 21.11.2013
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis
• EAN: 9780765710154
• ISBN: 978-0-7657-1015-4
• Pages: 318
• Series: New Imago; New Imago: Series in Theoretic; New Imago > 9