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This revised edition now presents five models for understanding the relationship between psychology and Christianity. All the essays and responses have been reworked and updated with some new contributors including the addition of a new perspective, the transformative view from John Coe and Todd Hall. Also found here is David Powlison who offers the biblical counseling model. The levels-of-explanation model is advanced by David G. Myers, while Stanton L. Jones offers an entirely new chapter presenting the integration model. The Christian psychology model is put forth by Robert C. Roberts now joined by Paul J. Watson. Each of the contributors responds to the other essayists, noting points of agreement as well as problems they see.--From publisher description

Professor David Entwistle's Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity is now available in a fully revised 3rd edition. Changes and additions have made throughout this unique volume, including: * 42 additional pages * expanded list of models discussed * more questions for discussions, and * an updated bibliography.As disciplines, psychology and theology share an overlapping interest in the nature and functioning of human beings. This book provides an introduction to many of the worldview issues and philosophical foundations that frame the relationship of psychology and theol

Representing two generations of counselor education and practice, Megan Anna Neff and Mark McMinn provide practitioners with a fresh look at integration in a postmodern world. Modeling how to engage hard questions, they consider how different theological views, gendered perspectives, and cultures integrate with psychology and counseling.

A new conversation /Earl D. Bland and Brad D. Strawn --Tradition-based integration /Ron Wright, Paul Jones, and Brad D. Strawn --Contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis /Brad D. Strawn --Ecumenical spirituality, Catholic theology and object relations theory : a threefold cord holding sacred space /Theresa Tisdale --Self psychology and Christian experience /Earl D. Bland --Intersubjective systems theory /Mitchell W. Hicks --Relational psychoanalysis /Lowell W. Hoffman --Attachment-based psychoanalytic therapy and Christianity : being in relation /Todd W. Hall and Lauren E. Maltby --Psychoanalytic couples therapy : an introduction and integration /Earl D. Bland --Brief dynamic psychotherapy /Michael W. Mangis --Christianity and psychoanalysis : final thoughts /Brad D. Strawn and Earl D. Bland.

Introduction / Kim Paffenroth -- The journey to simplicity: Augustine and the plural experiences of the soul / Todd Breyfogle -- Teaching Freud and interpreting Augustine's Confessions / Sandra Lee Dixon -- Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with attention to cultural interpretation and psychological theory / Sandra Lee Dixon -- St. Augustine: archetypes of family / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins -- Beteween two worlds / Morton T. Kelsey -- Augustine among the ancient therapists / Paul R. Kolbet -- Augustine and Freud: the secularization of self-deception / Margaret R. Miles -- Augustine and dopamine / Daniel B. Morehead -- Tears of grief and joy: chronological sequence and the structure of Confessions, Book 9 / Kim Paffenroth -- On seeing the light: assessing psychoanalytic interpretations of vision in Augustine's Confessions / William B. Parsons -- Augustine's extraordinary theory of memory / Raymond J. Shaw.

Both geographically and historically, schizophrenia may have emerged from a psychosis that was more florid, affective, labile, shorter lived and with a better prognosis. It is conjectured that this has occurred with a reflexive self-consciousness in Western and globalising societies, a development whose roots lie in Christianity. Every theology also presents a psychology. Six novel aspects of Christianity may be significant for the emergence of schizophrenia—an omniscient deity, a decontexualised self, ambiguous agency, a downplaying of immediate sensory data, and a scrutiny of the self and its reconstitution in conversion.