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Author Dan Merkur illustrates that in both its details and its goal, the meditative process meets contemporary psychoanalytic criteria for psychotherapeutic change. The medieval practice of meditation, Merkur writes, is comprehensible as guided imagery therapy that takes the meditator from fear of death to forgiveness of persecutors--in psychoanalytic terms, dissolving resistance through a capacity for concern and relationality.
"This is a courageous text on a topic many would avoid as too controversial. There is urgent need to relate the classic religious literature of the West with the advances in psychology. It is to our cultural peril that we do not enter into a dialogue between these two areas of human experience. Dan Merkur has done us a great service. Surely he has not written a last word, but he has offered us an important word in this tentative beginning. We owe him a debt of gratitude." -- Carla May Streeter, O.P., Aquinas Institute of Theology
Dan Merkur is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a research reader in the study of religion at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books, including Unconscious Wisdom: A Superego Function in Dreams, Conscience, and Inspiration, also published by SUNY Press.
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