Psychology and American Catholicism

by Gillespie, C. Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780824518967
• ISBN10: 0824518969
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Crossroad Pub Co

Summary

Through a series of historical accounts, this book offers a unique view of Roman Catholicism's twentieth century encounters with American culture.

Author Biography

Fr. C. Kevin Gillespic, S.J., is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Loyola College in Maryland and the Director of the Department's Masters Program in Spiritual and Pastoral Care.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(1)
Once upon a Time	1	(1)
Previous Research	2	(5)
Approach and Method	7	(2)
Sequencing the Stories	9	(4)
From Two Spires to One Banner: Antagonisms and Alliances	13	(8)
The New Century and the New Psychology	14	(1)
Growth of American Psycho-analysis	14	(2)
Fulton J. Sheen's Challenges to Psychoanalysis	16	(2)
Pope Pius XII and Psychotherapy: ``For the Knowledge of the Soul,''	18	(1)
From Controversy to Collaboration	19	(2)
The Turn-of-the-Century Immigrants: Catholicism and the New Psychology	21	(16)
The Catholic World at the Turn of the Century	22	(4)
American Catholic Higher Education at the Turn of the Century	26	(6)
Edward Pace and Experimental Psychology	32	(5)
The New Psychology: Footholds in American Catholicism	37	(17)
Thomas Verner Moore and the New Psychology	37	(3)
Moore and the Possibility of a Catholic Psychology	40	(5)
E. Boyd Barrett's Critique of Psychoanalysis	45	(3)
Charles Bruehl's Pastoral Applications	48	(2)
Rudolf Allers's Critique of Psychoanalysis	50	(4)
From Rational to Clinical Psychology: Three Jesuit Universities	54	(15)
St. Louis University	54	(2)
Loyola University of Chicago	56	(4)
Loyola Research Projects	60	(2)
Fordham University	62	(2)
Fr. William Bier, S.J.	64	(4)
Summary	68	(1)
Sr. Annette Walters, C.S.J.: Psychologist and Prophet	69	(13)
Walters's Education and Formation	70	(1)
Friendship with B. F. Skinner	71	(3)
Professional Life	74	(3)
Mental Health Institutes	77	(1)
Professor and National Presenter	78	(1)
Executive Secretary of the Sisters Formation Conference	79	(3)
Signs of the Times: American Catholicism before the Second Vatican Council	82	(12)
Gregory Zilboorg	89	(1)
St. John's Summer Institute	90	(3)
The Menninger Clinic	93	(1)
Photographs	94	(79)
Paradigm Shifts: Catholicism and Psychology	95	(19)
Vatican II and Its Pastoral Psychological Consequences	95	(5)
Humanae Vitae and Its Consequences	100	(2)
Paradigm Shifts in Psychology	102	(2)
Jung and Catholicism	104	(1)
Object Relations Theory and Religion	105	(1)
Psychological Influences on Moral Theology	106	(8)
Grace Still Builds on Nature: Bridge Builders between Psychology and Catholicism	114	(22)
Leo Bartemeier (1895-1982)	114	(2)
Francis Braceland (1900-1985)	116	(3)
John Cavanagh (1904-82)	119	(2)
Charles A. Curran (1913-78)	121	(2)
Adrian van Kaam (b. 1921)	123	(7)
William Meissner (b. 1931)	130	(4)
Conclusion	134	(2)
Monk and Psychologist: Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen	136	(12)
Thomas Merton: A Monk Who Encountered a Psychoanalyst	136	(1)
Merton and Zilboorg	137	(2)
``The Neurotic Personality in Monastic Life,''	139	(1)
Henri Nouwen: The Psychologist Who Encountered the Monk	140	(8)
Psychology and Spirituality: The New World	148	(11)
The Emergence of American Catholic Psychospirituality	153	(4)
The Psychospirituality of the Enneagram	157	(1)
Conclusion	158	(1)
Current and Future Issues: Controversy and Collaboration	159	(14)
Contemporary Catholic Cura Animarum: Confession or Therapy?	159	(3)
Neuralgic Concerns: Sexual Abuse, Addiction, and Abortion	162	(1)
Catholic Higher Education and American Psychology	163	(5)
Interfaith Dialogue	168	(1)
Conclusion	169	(4)
Notes	173	(29)
Index	202