Description:
This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and oriented toward spiritual growth.
Review Quotes:
'A moving, searching book in which psychoanalysis and spirituality nourish, add to and enrich one another as complex, multidimensional realities continue to grow. Through interaction of overlapping experiential practices, possibilities of the human find new life. My congratulations to Gideon Lev for undertaking the task of doing each domain justice, while bringing out the power of their communion in clinical practice and appreciative reflection.'
Michael Eigen PhD, author of The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Faith, and Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
'Lev's book is both modest and extremely ambitious. He recognises that there has been a 'spiritual turn' in psychoanalytic therapy. He didn't invent spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis. But his achievement is to demonstrate a deep understanding that there remains a pressing need to mainstream this turn so that it ceases to be niche, or remain the property of 'transpersonal' or 'Jungian' therapies. The original way in which the book is structured achieves this important and timely goal. Of equal significance is the broad range of spiritual and religious traditions upon which Lev draws. This represents a necessary ecumenicalism. At a time when the fastest growing approach to spirituality is termed SBNR (spiritual but not religious), it is the moment for psychoanalysis to make a somewhat different contribution than it has up to now. Maybe spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis is a new tradition within which spirit coils weaves its web? And maybe this book will find its way onto all relevant reading lists?'
Andrew Samuels, author of Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics and A New Anatomy of Spirituality