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Divine therapy [electronic resource] : love, mysticism and psychoanalysis / Janet Sayers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayers, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing.
- Mental healing.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Love--Health aspects.
- Love.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Divine Therapy
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This title presents stories and viewpoints highlighting the risks and healing transformations of what some call 'at-one-ment' with another in love, mysticism, art and psychoanalysis. It explores this by drawing on the philosophical and psychological writings of William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Simone Weil, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl, Melanie Klein, and others. It ends with one of the major figures of current psychoanalysis, Wilfred Bion, and with the insights of his followers, notably Christopher Bollas, Neville Symington and Julia Kristeva.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180803-2
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