Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis

Unlike most books on psychoanalysis and religion, where psychoanalysis is regarded as a superior mode of understanding, this work explains how psychoanalysis could be enhanced if it opened up to transcendence, a move that would make the theory and therapy more relevant to and in sync with the spiritual zeitgeist in America and elsewhere.

PAUL MARCUS is Supervising and Training Analyst for the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is author of Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society (Praeger, 1999).