Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

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Paul Marcus

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline

In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

Paul Marcus

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Routledge
27 April 2021

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Religion: general; Eclectic & esoteric religions & belief systems; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could ""only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit."" Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting, ""Yes, spirit is everything."" However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and practice.

This book seeks to help revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as a ""theory in crisis"" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious philosophers—Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a Catholic—who both initiated a ""Copernican revolution"" in human thought.

In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering, and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.

By: Paul Marcus
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 444g
ISBN: 9780367754013
ISBN 10: 0367754010
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 27 April 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Marcus is a training and supervisory analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City and co- chairperson of the discussion group Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings. He is the author/ editor of 21 books, including Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin.

Reviews for Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

"""A profoundly human exploration of significant dimensions of experience touching many aspects of our being. It is a pleasure to wander and wonder with it through mysteries of human engagement."" - Michael Eigen, author, The Challenge of Being Human, Faith, and The Sensitive Self ""...this book is a testament to the fact that a meaningful and more fulfilling life, a life in which one flourishes, is possible."" Geoffrey Karabin, review in Marcel Studies, Vol. 8, Issue No. 1"