What is it about?
Psychoanalysis is usually considered an atheist discipline. In this paper I show not only it isn’t necessarily atheist, it can actually be highly sensitive to the spiritual, supporting and enhancing spiritual patients. Specifically I focus on the treatment goals of analysis which is ‘sensitive to the spiritual’.
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Why is it important?
This paper is perhaps the first to recognize and describe what might develop into a new school in psychoanalysis, called here ‘spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis’. The paper details the unique contribution psychoanalysis can have to the spiritual person, compared with other spiritually-sensitive psychologies or spiritual traditions. The paper also details what it might mean to be ‘spiritual’, and what particular aims the spiritual path – often described in vague terms – can lead to.
Perspectives
For me, the opportunity to integrate sensitivity to the spiritual with the sharp clarity of traditional psychoanalysis creates a new and exciting synthesis. This synthesis I believe offers one of the widest and fullest pictures of the human condition and its potentials that can be found today in the sciences of mind and psyche.
Dr Gideon Lev
private practice
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This page is a summary of: Morality, Selflessness, Transcendence: On Treatment Goals of a Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, July 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2015.1062973.
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