The Spirit of Sanity - Softcover

Symington, Neville

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855752654 ISBN 13: 9781855752658

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

A rare and unusual consideration of the spiritual dimensions of sanity from a psychoanalytic perspective, this transcription of a series of seven lectures delivered at the Tavistock Clinic capture the spontaneity and immediacy of the interplay between one of the world's most eminent psychoanalysts and an audience of his peers. The author of the established psychoanalytic classics Emotion and Spirit, Narcissism: A New Theory; and The Analytic Experience here brings his characteristic insight and innovation to the question of how the traditional Freudian view of religious belief as neurotic or illusory can be reconciled with a way of taking up psychoanalytic work without abandoning the spiritual dimension to life.

About this title

About the Author:

Neville Symington is the author of established psychoanalytic classics including Emotion and Spirit; Narcissism: A New Theory; The Making of a Psychotherapist; The Spirit of Sanity; A Pattern of Madness and How to Choose a Psychotherapist. He works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Australia.

Review:

'Each one of Neville Symington's books is full of original thought which is enourmously stimulating and challenging, and full of courage to face issues which most of us don't.'- Isca Wittenberg

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1855752654
• ISBN 13: 9781855752658
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216