Pauline Watson

'Two Scrubby Travellers'

A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley

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Produktbeschreibung

Watson uses the post-Freudian theories of Klein and Kristeva to examine the intersection of psychoanalysis and religious studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138241046
• ISBN-10: 1138241040
• Artikelnr.: 52417035

Autorenporträt

Pauline Watson graduated in medicine from Glasgow University, UK, and holds a PhD in theology from Durham University, UK. She worked as a General Practitioner before training in psychiatry. As a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she set up a local psychiatric service in Consett, Co. Durham. She has also worked as a psychotherapist with asylum seekers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Why Kristeva? The Search for Goodness. An 'emotionally
available object'. The search for 'deep truth' through symbolisation.
Resonances: Psychic space in a religious context. Evangelical nature: The
Wesleys' historical and religious context. John Wesley. Charles Wesley.
Theological differences. Conclusion.