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This is an excellent book which I recommend highly. It is the result of an attempt to facilitate a Jungian-Freudian dialogue on the links between psychotherapy and spirituality. In 2002, the editors invited an equal number of prominent psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists to give a series of lectures at the London Centre for Psychotherapy. It was hoped that by matching each lecturer with a respondent from the other side a dialectic would ensue. This proved harder than anticipated as the respondent was expected to show an informed appreciation of the lecturer's contribution and a lively challenge to their position. Inevitably some pairings proved more dynamic than others and two of the respondents declined to appear in print. However, what we are left with is a very engaging and erudite collection of essays which struggle with the concept of spirituality and its place in the consulting room and beyond.
The list of contributors makes impressive reading and includes Karen Armstrong, David Black, Ronald Britton, Patrick Casement, Nathan Field, Rosemary Gordon, Josephine Klein, Donald Meltzer, Chris MacKenna, Andrew Samuels and Kenneth Wright. There is not space here to review all the papers and so I will comment on that which has stayed with me.
I enjoyed the way the authors grappled with what spirituality is. Rosemary Gordon espoused the definition given by the Nuer people of East Africa. They call it Kwoth