Freud and Jung on Religion - Softcover

Palmer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415147476 ISBN 13: 9780415147477

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Michael Palmer provides a detailed account of the theories of religion of both Freud and Jung and sets them side by side for the first time

In the first section of the text Dr Palmer analyses Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis - a psychological illness fuelled by sexual repression. The second section considers Jung's rejection of Freud's theory and his own assertion that it is the absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis.

Freud and Jung on Religion is suitable for general and specialist reader alike, as it assumes no prior knowledge of the theories of Freud or Jung and is an invaluable teaching text.

Review:

"Michael Palmer's book," is exactly what it says it is: a study of Freud's and Jung's psychologies and their understandings of religion.."
-by Peter Homans, Divinity School and Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, in Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books, 2002.

About the Author:

Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood. His books have been translated into thirty languages. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415147476
• ISBN 13: 9780415147477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256