Emotion and Spirit

Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.

'...a terrific book...I do think here the teaching of years has been most superbly and satisfyingly and deeply worked out, and knitted into a stunningly impressive whole.'- Dr. Nina Coltart, author of How to Survive as a Psychotherapist

• Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Part One , The Nature of Primitive Religion , Mature Religion , The Judaeo-Christian Tradition , Religious Wisdom From the East , Socrates – Religious Teacher in Classical Greece , The Relation Between the Moral and the Spiritual , Towards a Definition of Religion , Part Two , Freud’s Diagnosis of Religion , Meissner’s Critique of Freud , The Challenge of Jung , From Causal to Moral in Psychoanalysis , The Current Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Religion , Erich Fromm’s Assessment of Religion , Part Three , The Human Condition , Narcissism and the Human Condition , The Transformation of Narcissism through Psychoanalysis , Part Four , The Domain of Psychoanalysis , Conscience and the Super-Ego , Self-Knowledge, virtue and mental health , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality in the World , Science and Religion , Conclusion