- Hardcover: 244 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (31 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195062345
- ISBN-13: 978-0195062342
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.8 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,470,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A welcome addition to the literature on psychoanalysis and religion. Pruyser would have to be ranked among the major contributors to the dialogue between religion and psychology in our time."--Theological Studies
"A most valuable insight into psychological aspects of religious experience and religious function, and future prospects for the psychological study of religion."--Church Times
"His chief contribution in these essays is to be found in his exposition of the pertinence of psychoanalysis to a critical review of religious phenomena. This is no small achievement, because the ignorance of psychoanalysts on matters of religion is only equalled by the ignorance of psychoanalysis on the part of the faithful. Both might profit from Pruyser's conscientious inquiries."--Psychoanalytic Quarterly
"Dr. Pruyser was one of the foremost contemporary contributors to the psychology of religion; and clinical psychologist that he was, his work was of interest far beyond the relatively
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At his death in 1987, Paul W. Pruyser of the Menninger Foundation was widely recognized as one of America's foremost authorities on the psychology of religion. In this volume, two leading practitioners have collected ten of Pruyser's most important essays from a variety of published sources. The essays provide an overview of the major themes in Pruyser's thought and demonstrate the continuing importance of his contribution.
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