Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip

Harry S. Guntrip was best known for his affiliation with two famous psychoanalysts from what is known as the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis in England: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald Winnicott. This book traces the various influences on the development of his clinical and theological thinking in context of the historical tension between religion and psychoanalysis. The central feature of his development will be demonstrated as a series of polarities, both theoretical and personal, conflicts with which he wrestled theologically, psychologically, and interpersonally on the professional level and in his own personal psychoanalyses. A critical evaluation of the outcome of Guntrip's own personal psychoanalyses with Fairbairn and Winnicott will demonstrate the autobiographical nature of his theoretical analysis of schizoid phenomena: a psychological state of self-preoccupation and way of being in the world. --from the Introduction

Author: Trevor Dobbs
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781498248501

About the Author
Trevor M. Dobbs, PhD, is Core Faculty in the Marriage and Family Therapy Department at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California. He is also Faculty and a Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Tustin and Pasadena, California.