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Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland

Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland

Miller, Gavin

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Series: Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives

General ChristianityGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1474446973
ISBN13: 9781474446976
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Mar 3 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Exploring the entanglement of religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland
Far from being washed away by the tide of secularization that swept post-war United Kingdom, one of the ways in which Christianity in Scotland survived, and transformed itself, was by drawing on the alliances that it had built earlier in the century with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was seen as a way to purify Christianity, and to propel it in a scientifically rational and socially progressive direction. This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy that found expression in the work of celebrated figures such as the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing and the pioneering psychoanalyst W.R.D. Fairbairn, as well as the careers of less well-known individuals such as the psychotherapist Winifred Rushforth.

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