Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality

Belinda Sharp is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Senior Member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. She co-edited 'Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality' (Karnac 2005)

'The foregoing developments, now widely discussed in the psychoanalytic literature, influenced my approach in organizing these lectures. If within the bastions of "hard" science, inner experience has become a legitimate topic of discussion; if even the major figures in the world of physics - Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Bohm - could publicly acknowledge a spiritual perspective, perhaps the time was ripe to attempt a modest resumption of the aborted collaboration between Freud and Jung?'- Nathan Field from the Introduction

• Introduction -- Lecture One -- The strange case of the missing spirit -- Response by Steven Mendoza -- Lecture Two -- The challenge of evolution and the place of sympathy -- Response by Adrian Dickinson -- Lecture Three -- Have “objects” got faces? -- Response by Tom Mcdonnell -- Lecture Four -- The spiritual dimension in psychotherapeutic practice -- Response by Jennifer Silverstone -- Lecture Five -- The use of theological concepts in psychoanalytic understanding -- Response by Hester Solomon -- Lecture Six -- A new anatomy of spirituality -- Lecture Seven -- The role of projective identification in the formation of Weltanschauung -- Response by David Mayers -- Lecture Eight -- A personal journey through psychotherapy and religion -- Response by Bernardine Bishop -- Lecture Nine -- What happens between people -- Response by Patrick Casement -- Lecture Ten -- What is religion?