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9780865549937

Paul Tillich and Psychology : Historic and Contemporary Explorations in Theology, Psychotherapy, and Ethics

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    9780865549937

  • ISBN10:

    0865549931

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-03-30
  • Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

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Summary

Paul Tillich, more than any other theologian of the twentieth century, maintained an energetic dialogue with psychology, and especially psychotherapy. This book explores what Tillich's theology has to offer psychologists and others working in the field of mental health, spiritual development, and pastoral counseling. Tillich's interaction with Carl Rogers, Erich Fromm, Rollo May, and other famous psychologists became an important part of his thinking. Tillich frequently pushed psychologists to see the underlying philosophical assumptions of their work. This investigation of the underpinnings of psychotherapy then encouraged psychotherapists to become more aware of the ultimate questions about meaning, purpose, and ethics that informed their work. Perhaps the greatest contribution this book offers is a careful narrative and analysis of the meetings of the New York Psychology Group, which involved such figures as Tillich, Fromm, May, Rogers, Seward Hiltner, Ruth Benedict, and David Roberts, to name just a few. This important group, which met from 1941 to 1945, dealt with issues that are very much with us today, such as whether faith can be psychologically explained, the meaning of transcendence, the relationship between psychotherapy and ethics, the appropriateness of self-love, and whether human love is parallel with Divine love.

Author Biography

Terry D. Cooper is professor of Psychology at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and adjunct professor of Religious Studies at Webster University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Accepting Our Acceptance: Grace and Psychotherapy
1(36)
Tillich on Acceptance
2(5)
Tillich and Luther
7(8)
Theological and Psychotherapeutic Acceptance: Tillich and Carl Rogers
15(2)
Incongruence and Estrangement
17(4)
Acceptance and the ``Demonic''
21(4)
Grace and Acceptance: A Conflation of Terms?
25(6)
Acceptance and the Ground of Being
31(4)
Summary
35(2)
Anxiety and Its Treatment: Psychotherapy and the ``Courage to Be''
37(26)
Tillich's Own Struggle with Anxiety
38(3)
Tillich's The Courage to Be
41(2)
Distinguishing Fear and Anxiety
43(2)
Anxiety's Three Major Threats
45(3)
The Positive Side of Anxiety
48(3)
Anxiety and the Limits of Psychotherapy
51(1)
Limited Self-Affirmation
52(3)
The Cognitive Therapy Challenge
55(2)
A Tillichian Critique of Cognitive Therapy
57(3)
Courage, Individuation, and Participation
60(2)
Summary
62(1)
Estrangement and New Being: Sin and the Limitations of Psychotherapy
63(36)
Existence Itself Is the Problem
64(1)
Existentialism and Depth Psychology
65(4)
Created Goodness and Existential Estrangement
69(7)
Estrangement and Women's Experience: Plaskow's Critique
76(4)
Tillich, Marx, and Fromm on ''the Fall'' and Redemption
80(4)
The ''Syndrome of Decay'': Fromm's View of Estrangement
84(7)
Tillich's Three Characteristics of Estrangement
91(2)
Fromm's Vision and Tillich's Critique
93(6)
The Psychology of Faith and Love: The New York Psychology Group, 1941--1943
99(48)
First Year: Psychology of Faith
100(18)
Reflections on the First Year of Discussion
118(9)
Second Year: Psychology of Love
127(13)
The Psychology of Love: Reflections on the Second Year
140(7)
Ethics and Psychotherapy: The New York Psychology Group, 1943--1945
147(48)
Third Year: Psychology of Conscience
147(21)
Fourth Year: The Psychology of Helping
168(20)
Ethics and Psychotherapy: Reflections on the Third and Fourth Years
188(7)
Theology and Psychology: Tillich's Ongoing Relevance
195(24)
Apologetic and Unapologetic Theology
195(2)
From Tillich and Barth to Revisionists and Postliberals
197(6)
Critical Hermeneutics: The Best of Both Worlds?
203(2)
Browning's Development of Tracy and Ricoeur
205(3)
Beyond Existential Anthropology: From the Individual to the Social
208(6)
Tillich's Ongoing Relevance
214(5)
Index 219

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