Psychology and American Catholicism : from confession to therapy? / C. Kevin Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, C. Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Psychology and religion.

Psychology, Religious.

Catholic Church--United States--History--20th century.

Catholic Church--United States.

History.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Catholic Church--United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Crossroad Pub., [2001]

Summary:

Through a series of historical accounts, "Psychology and American Catholicism" offers a rare view of Roman Catholicism's 20th-century encounters with American culture, from Catholicism's issues with experimental and clinical psychology to the assimilation of psychology's fund of knowledge.

Contents:

Once upon a Time 1

Previous Research 2

Approach and Method 7

Sequencing the Stories 9

1. From Two Spires to One Banner: Antagonisms and Alliances 13

The New Century and the New Psychology 14

Growth of American Psychoanalysis 14

Fulton J. Sheen's Challenges to Psychoanalysis 16

Pope Pius XII and Psychotherapy: "For the Knowledge of the Soul," 18

From Controversy to Collaboration 19

2. The Turn-of-the-Century Immigrants: Catholicism and the New Psychology 21

The Catholic World at the Turn of the Century 22

American Catholic Higher Education at the Turn of the Century 26

Edward Pace and Experimental Psychology 32

3. The New Psychology: Footholds in American Catholicism 37

Thomas Verner Moore and the New Psychology 37

Moore and the Possibility of a Catholic Psychology 40

E. Boyd Barrett's Critique of Psychoanalysis 45

Charles Bruehl's Pastoral Applications 48

Rudolf Allers's Critique of Psychoanalysis 50

4. From Rational to Clinical Psychology: Three Jesuit Universities 54

St. Louis University 54

Loyola University of Chicago 56

Loyola Research Projects 60

Fordham University 62

Fr. William Bier, S.J. 64

5. Sr. Annette Walters, C.S.J.: Psychologist and Prophet 69

Walters's Education and Formation 70

Friendship with B. F. Skinner 71

Professional Life 74

Mental Health Institutes 77

Professor and National Presenter 78

Executive Secretary of the Sisters Formation Conference 79

6. Signs of the Times: American Catholicism before the Second Vatican Council 82

Gregory Zilboorg 89

St. John's Summer Institute 90

The Menninger Clinic 93

7. Paradigm Shifts: Catholicism and Psychology 95

Vatican II and Its Pastoral Psychological Consequences 95

Humanae Vitae and Its Consequences 100

Paradigm Shifts' in Psychology 102

Jung and Catholicism 104

Object Relations Theory and Religion 105

Psychological Influences on Moral Theology 106

8. Grace Still Builds on Nature: Bridge Builders between Psychology and Catholicism 114

Leo Bartemeier, M.D. (1895-1982) 114

Francis Braceland, M.D. (1900-1985) 116

John Cavanagh, M.D. (1904-82) 119

Charles A. Curran, Ph.D. (1913-78) 121

Adrian van Kaam, Ph.D. (b. 1921) 123

William Meissner, M.D. (b. 1931) 130

9. Monk and Psychologist: Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen 136

Thomas Merton: A Monk Who Encountered a Psychoanalyst 136

Merton and Zilboorg 137

"The Neurotic Personality in Monastic Life," 139

Henri Nouwen: The Psychologist Who Encountered the Monk 140

10. Psychology and Spirituality: The New World 148

The Emergence of American Catholic Psychospirituality 153

The Psychospirituality of the Enneagram 157

11. Current and Future Issues: Controversy and Collaboration 159

Contemporary Catholic Cura Animarum: Confession or Therapy? 159

Neuralgic Concerns: Sexual Abuse, Addiction, and Abortion 162

Catholic Higher Education and American Psychology 163

Interfaith Dialogue 168.

Notes:

"A Crossroad book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-201) and index.

ISBN:

0824518969

OCLC:

45835433