Harvard professor of psychiatry Dr. John Mack describes how the explicit inclusion of a spiritual point of view has significant implications for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, and for how we may redefine or expand our notions of the self.
Toward a Spiritual Point of View in Psychoanalysis
Presentation by John E. Mack, M.D.
1991.01.23 Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion, lecture series On Selfhood
A paper developed from this talk, "Psychoanalysis and the Self: Toward a Spiritual Point of View", was published in Boston University Studies in Philosophy & Religion Vol. 13, Selves, People, and Persons: What Does it Mean to Be a Self?, Ed. L.S. Rouner, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana. 1992, pp 169-186.