Structural Convergences between Mental Disorders and Religion
Damian Janus draws on his clinical experience to address the relationship between psychopathology and religion. Using clinical vignettes and religious concepts, Janus questions common understandings of mental disorders.
A Jesuit priest's memoir about recovering his memory of clerical abuse as a child In October 2021, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church released its report detailing consistent disregard of survivors and the callous and horrifying "lack of outrage" from bishops and other Catholic leaders. What this report does not ......
Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people and offers key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.
Emergent Systems Theory as an Integrative Framework
Lisa J. Cohen introduces an integrative model of divergent treatments for personality pathology. Implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment are discussed and illustrated with case examples.
A Psychodynamic Approach to Treating Problem Sexual Behaviors and Their
This groundbreaking, engaging clinical resource for psychotherapists, sex therapists, and related clinicians is replete with rich and empathetic case material and offers a practical, powerful argument for using psychodynamic approaches when working with sex addicts and their partners to achieve long-lasting relational results.
This study examines Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy, a British chaplain during World War I. The author analyzes Kennedy's poetry, prose, and postwar activities and the impact of moral injury on a combat veteran through the lens of contemporary psychological research.
Richard Rojcewicz argues that Heidegger and Plato see the same connection between philosophy and death: philosophizing is dying in the sense of separating oneself from the prison constituted by superficiality and hearsay. Rojcewicz relates this understanding of philosophy to signs, anxiety, conscience, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize one's life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory "in question" and receptive to alternative futures to come.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty examines the intrapsychic features of the self as it presents within OCD compulsive doubting. Moshe Marcus and Steven Tuber suggest a phenomenological framework through which to consider the interplay between the cognitive as well as affective components required to make judgments.
