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The exploration of the inner world; a study of mental disorder and religious experience / by Anton T. Boisen.
LIBRA - Special BL53 .B6 1971a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boisen, Anton T. (Anton Theophilus), 1876-1965.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology, Pathological.
- Psychology, Religious.
- Medicine--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Church work with the mentally ill.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 322 pages : diagrams ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, [1971]
- Contents:
- pt. 1 :
- Journey of exploration
- Wilderness of the lost
- Some successful explorers
- George Fox among the doctors
- pt. 2 :
- Theoretical implications
- Messianic consciousness
- Battleground of character
- Problem of right and wrong
- Queen of the sciences
- pt. 3 :
- Practical applications
- Where priest and physician meet
- Church in action
- Foundations of spiritual healing
- Clinical experience in the service of the mentally ill
- Distinctive task of the minister of religion
- Interrelationship of the individual and social salvation.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1936.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0812210204
- 9780812210200
- OCLC:
- 445155
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