This is a valuable collection of articles approaching the relation between psychoanalysis and transcendent experience. The approaches, clinical, autobiographical, phenomenological, epistemological, critical, are as many and varied as the experiences they undertake to examine. The writers are however all engaged in the practice and teaching of psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Their main unifying context, as we read in the foreword by James W. Jones, is in the implicit or explicit rejection of the hitherto normative and usually unexamined Freudian pathologizing of religion.

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