Hearing spiritual voices: medieval mystics, meaning and psychiatry / Christopher C.H. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Chris (Christopher C.H.), author.

Contributor:

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hearing--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Hearing.

Experience (Religion).

Auditory hallucinations.

Psychiatry--Religious aspects.

Psychiatry.

Spirits.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

ix, 136 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : T & T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.

Summary:

This book takes three 14th century examples of women who heard spiritually significant voices: Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Joan of Arc. Each of these women, in different ways, has left an enduring legacy in literature and history. Modern psychiatric commentary on the voices that they reported has generally focussed on diagnosis rather than on wider questions of meaning. These commentaries will be used as a lens through which to consider how contemporary psychiatric practice might be enriched by the humanities and enabled to find a more spiritually empathetic, if not also sympathetic, enriching and meaning enhancing perspective on unusual mental phenomena. --From publisher's website.

Contents:

Margery Kempe

Julian of Norwich

Joan of Arc

Towards a more meaningful psychiatry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

9780567707970

0567707989

9780567707987

0567707970

OCLC:

1380843841

Publisher Number:

99995534427