Augustine and Psychology
Contributions by Todd Breyfogle University of Denver, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Morton Kelsey, Paul R. Kolbet, Margaret R. Miles, Daniel B. Morehead, William B. Parsons, Raymond J. Shaw Edited by Sandra Dixon, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, Villanova University
Publication date:
21 December 2012Length of book:
234 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
235x158mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739179185
The essays in Augustine and Psychology, edited by Sandra Lee Dixon, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth, relate St. Augustine to the modern theory and practice of psychology in several ways. The contributors analyze Augustine’s own examination of himself (and occasionally others) to see to what extent he himself was a “doctor” or practiced “therapy” in ways that we can recognize and appreciate; they find connections between his theories of memory and mind, and modern theories of the same; they consider the influences and context in which he worked, and how those affected him and his ideas of the mind and soul; and, lastly, the contributors subject St. Augustine to the scrutiny of modern psychoanalysis (and critique such scrutiny where appropriate).
This impressive collection of new and classic essays connects Augustine’s thought with Freudian theory, philosophical psychology, neuroscience, and related inquiries. Augustine and Psychology is a fine addition to a distinguished series.