Originally published in 1959, this book is primarily concerned with the question of psychiatric factors in religion, and, conversely, with that of religious factors in psychiatry. It rejects the Freudian theory that religion is a form of obsessional neurosis. Though this latter hypothesis may explain many of the phenomena of religious observance, it cannot explain the reality of religious experience. Dr Guirdham believes that orthodox Christianity is a perversion of the psychologically irrefutable teaching of Christ and that its conception of God as a supreme being endowed with supreme power, its teaching on the resurrection, and its contamination with a sense of guilt, are especially conducive to psychiatric disorder. He shows how theology may actually be inimical to religious experience and how faith differs from belief and is a response of the whole man. The book explains also the psychological origins of clericalism and demonstrates the role played by the latter in stifling religious experience.

Christ and Freud (RLE: Freud): A Study of Religious Experience and Observance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Guirdham, Arthur

Mental Health

Routledge

We Are One Another: A Record of Group Reincarnation

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Borgo Pr

Beekman Books Inc

<p>A study of the history and beliefs of Catharism.</p>

The Great Heresy: The History and Beliefs of the Cathars

History

World

C.W. Daniel

The Psychic Dimensions of Mental Health

Psychology & Counseling

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Factual record of a woman who remembers her life in the 13th century.

Cathars and Reincarnation: The Record of a Past Life in Thirteenth-century France

Occult & Paranormal

Turnstone Press Limited

A story of eight people who lived and suffered as medieval Cathar heretics.

The C.W. Daniel Company, Ltd.

A doctor's autobiography of psychic experience.

A foot in both worlds;: A doctor's autobiography of psychic experience

Spearman

A study of the history and beliefs of Catharism.

The great heresy

Neville Spearman

The lake & the castle

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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