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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).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Journey to Simplicity: Augustine and the Plural Experiences of the Soul
Todd Breyfogle
Chapter 2: Teaching Freud and Interpreting Augustine’s Confessions
Sandra Lee Dixon
Chapter 3: Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with Attention to Cultural Interpretation and Psychological Theory
Sandra Lee Dixon
Chapter 4: St. Augustine: Archetypes of Family
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Chapter 5: Between Two Worlds
Morton Kelsey
Chapter 6: Augustine among the Ancient Therapists
Paul R. Kolbet
Chapter 7: Augustine and Freud: The Secularization of Self-Deception
Margaret R. Miles
Chapter 8: Augustine and Dopamine
Daniel B. Morehead
Chapter 9: Tears of Grief and Joy: Chronological Sequence and the Structure of Confessions, Book 9
Kim Paffenroth
Chapter 10: On Seeing the Light: Assessing Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Vision in Augustine’s Confessions
William B. Parsons
Chapter 11: Augustine’s Extraordinary Theory of Memory
Raymond J. Shaw

Product details

Published Dec 21 2012
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 234
ISBN 9780739179185
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 Table
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sandra Dixon

Sandra Dixon is Associate Professor in the Faculty…

Anthology Editor

John Doody

Anthology Editor

Kim Paffenroth

Contributor

Todd Breyfogle

Contributor

Morton Kelsey

Contributor

Paul R. Kolbet

Contributor

Raymond J. Shaw

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