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The relationship between psychoanalysis (in a wide sense) and religion has passed through several stages. With Freud, there was outright opposition. Jung, on the other hand, believed that the religious ‘instinct’ is a natural function which, for many people caught in the post-religious twentieth century Western world, was better catered for in an analytic setting than by an attempted return to the patient's religious roots - though he did not exclude this possibility with those for whom it was still possible. Since 1961, when Jung died, the social and intellectual climate in this country has changed considerably, and analytic thinking has advanced in a number of ways which now enable us to be more thoughtful about the possibilities of religious experience. Josephine Klein's book, Jacob's Ladder (Klein 2003), is one fruit of this new learning, daring to wonder, as she does, whether religious experience may not contain treasures to which analytic thinking has yet to find access. Agneta Schreurs has made another significant contribution to this debate. Her book, Psychotherapy and Spirituality (Schreurs 2002), is remarkable for the fact that she not only considers religious issues, as they may arise in therapy, from a psychotherapeutic view-point, but also