Augustine and Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Doody, John; Dixon, Sandra; Paffenroth, Kim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in Augustine and Psychology, edited by Sandra Lee Dixon, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth, relate St. Augustine to the modern theory and practice of psychology in several ways. The contributors analyze Augustine's own examination of himself (and occasionally others) to see to what extent he himself was a "doctor" or practiced "therapy" in ways that we can recognize and appreciate; they find connections between his theories of memory and mind, and modern theories of the same; they consider the influences and context in which he worked, and how those affected him and his ideas of the mind and soul; and, lastly, the contributors subject St. Augustine to the scrutiny of modern psychoanalysis (and critique such scrutiny where appropriate).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739179192
• Artikelnr.: 41007640

Autorenporträt

Sandra Lee Dixon is associate professor of psychology of religion at the University of Denver. John Doody is professor of philosophy and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Villanova University. Kim Paffenroth is professor of religious studies at Iona College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Journey to Simplicity: Augustine and the Plural Experiences
of the Soul
Todd Breyfogle
Chapter 2: Teaching Freud and Interpreting Augustine's Confessions
Sandra Lee Dixon
Chapter 3: Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with Attention to Cultural
Interpretation and Psychological Theory
Sandra Lee Dixon
Chapter 4: St. Augustine: Archetypes of Family
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Chapter 5: Between Two Worlds
Morton Kelsey
Chapter 6: Augustine among the Ancient Therapists
Paul R. Kolbet
Chapter 7: Augustine and Freud: The Secularization of Self-Deception
Margaret R. Miles
Chapter 8: Augustine and Dopamine
Daniel B. Morehead
Chapter 9: Tears of Grief and Joy: Chronological Sequence and the Structure
of Confessions, Book 9
Kim Paffenroth
Chapter 10: On Seeing the Light: Assessing Psychoanalytic Interpretations
of Vision in Augustine's Confessions
William B. Parsons
Chapter 11: Augustine's Extraordinary Theory of Memory
Raymond J. Shaw