The Man in the Yellow Hat: Theology and Psychoanalysis in Child Therapy

by Dorothy W. Martyn

Overview

Psychotherapist Dorothy W. Martyn reverses the way in which psychoanalytic psychology and Christian theology have usually been related to one another. With few exceptions, priority has been granted to psychology: infantile needs and wishes spawn religious ideas; from one's life experience one can proceed to an understanding of God. Tracing the therapeutic journeys of three children, Martyn finds crucial illumination in the insights of Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Klein, and others. But she sees the power that evokes emotional growth in the therapeutic relationship as deriving from motifs of Christian theology that deepen our understanding of authentic parental love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555406318
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/02/1992
Series:	AAR Academy Series , #76
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 6.84(h) x 0.52(d)