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The title of Margaret Arden's excellent book may be a touch misleading and disappoint those whose appetites have been whetted in anticipation of an exploration of the soul. Her book, which is a collection of papers published between 1984-1997, belongs to that current of enquiry and research that seeks to place a tradition of thought and practice in relation to contemporary and evolving paradigms. As such it ranges, somewhat ironically, given Arden's direction, over a stimulating and thoughtful appraisal of emergent scientific ideas and perspectives.
The recognition, early in her practice, that it was Christian rather than Freudian thought that underlay her reaction to her patients, stimulated her engagement with other models of the truth out of which she has sought to construct an holistic attitude. Birthing the truth of the patient is the image which encapsulates her approach, as she makes clear in the introduction: