Author: Malony, H. Newton & Spilka, Bernard; editors:
Title: Religion in Psychodynamic Perspective: The Contributions of Paul W. Pruyser
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x, 233 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: A Psychological View of Religion in the 1970s; Contemporary Religious Beliefs: The Seamy Side of Current Religious Beliefs; Narcissism in Contemporary Religion; Religious Function: Religion in the Psychiatric Hospital: A Reassessment; Anxiety, Guilt & Shame in the Atonement; Methods for Studying Religion: Assessment of the Patient's Religious Attitudes in the Psychiatric Case Study; Psychoanalytic Method in the Study of Religious Meanings; Religious Dynamics: Psychological Roots & Branches of Belief; Forms & Functions of the Imagination in Religion; Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? Scenarios for the Psychology of Religion; The Pruyser Legacy for the Psychology of Religion.

Keywords: Psychology of Religion, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Paul W. Pruyser, Christianity, , , ,