Religious objects as psychological structures

a critical integration of object relations theory, psychotherapy and Judaism

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Religious objects as psychological structures

a critical integration of object relations theory, psychotherapy and Judaism

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In this original work, Moshe Halevi Spero makes a two-pronged effort to integrate the psychological and religious perspectives of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory with the system of Jewish ethics known as Halakhah. Religious Objects as Psychological Structures represents the first comprehensive theoretical and clinical integration of psychology and Judaism within the larger understanding of the religious nature of psychotherapy and the psychotherapeutic nature of religion.

By constructing a halakhic metapsychology within which psychological phenomena can be given specific halakhic identities, Spero arrives at a unique perspective on the development of religious objects and God representations. He traces two lines of development: one for relationships between humans, anthropocentric, and another for relationships between God and humans, deocentric.

The second aspect of his argument is that these two distinct but parallel lines allow one to conceptualize the revolutionary possibility of transference displacements--the shift of religious symbology--not only from interpersonal relationships onto the God concept (Freud's model) but also from an objective human-God relationship onto interpersonal relationships.

Filled with clinical as well as theoretical illustrations, Spero's work is a rich resource for both the religious patient and the religious therapist. In the last few decades, a great deal of literature has been written on the relationship between theology and psychotherapy; none of this work, however, has addressed its subject using Judaism as a point of reference. Spero successfully takes up the task of bridging this gap in previous scholarship.

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English
Pages
242

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-236) and index.

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
296.3/875
Library of Congress
BM538.P68 S63 1992, BM538.P68S63 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 242 p. :
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2026033M
Internet Archive
religiousobjects0000sper
ISBN 10
0226769399
LCCN
91000845
OCLC/WorldCat
24318461
Library Thing
2730541
Goodreads
3402627

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