In Finding Space, Ann Belford Ulanov argues that depth psychology in general and the work of D. W. Winnicott in particular offer vital new ways in which to apprehend religious life, especially Christian religious life. Her inspiration is rooted in Winnicott's influence on her work as an analyst and how his ideas have enriched her own Christian faith and religious understanding. In addition, Ulanov feels Winnicott's focus on the intensity of aliveness is an antidote to the plight of contemporary religion - that it can be passionless or rote, and thereby irrelevant to so many people. She expands Winnicott's concept of transitional space between self and other to apply to the space between the human and divine. She explores the importance of the "illusionist element" of God images in creative approaches to the divine. Other topics include the paradox transitional reality holds with subjective and objective notions Christians have of God; the inclusion of the body - specifically sexuality and aggression and the struggle for integration within the self - in the search for relationship with God; and the importance of the feminine. In an especially helpful appendix, Ulanov includes Winnicott's thoughts on matters pertinent to religious life and thought.

Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ulanov, Ann Belford

Psychology & Counseling

Westminster John Knox Pr

In this book, Ann Ulanov, an accomplished psychiatrist and scholar, draws on the work of renowned psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to suggest fresh methods for effective pastoral care and counseling.

Westminster/John Knox Press

This book grew out of years of reflections on real women's experiences. From them, Ann Ulanov states, "a common voice emerged speaking about each woman's struggle to receive all of herself. Each was trying to find and put together different parts of herself into a whole that was personal, alive, and real to herself and to others." This book focuses on helping women "receive themselves" by rejecting stereotypes and categories and seeking out their own individuality.

Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology and Theology of the Feminine

Mental Health

Religion and the unconscious

In Religion and the Unconscious, Ann and Barry Ulanov provide a thoughtful study of the relationship between religion and depth psychology. An insightful contribution to the entire area of pastoral counseling, this book demonstrates how to combine religion and depth psychology in order to provide more effective counseling.

Religion and the Unconscious

Politics & Social Sciences

Ulanov, Barry

Philosophy

Aliveness and Deadness are processes that cannot be captured, only symbolized within the precincts of psychology and religion. Opening under the shadow of 9/11, our new century must reassess the preciousness of life and what we are living for, what we love, and what we find worth dying for. In the face of loss and absence, we must again ask what makes us feel connected to the source of aliveness. Yet, we must also understand that feeling fully alive means that we must come to fresh insight about the contrary of aliveness, which is deadness. Both aliveness and deadness are part of the same fabric of being. But how do we talk about them? Or do we leave these unnamed? For Ann Belford Ulanov, aliveness is to make something of what we hear, and to hear what we hear makes of us. Working on oneself enlarges; thus, society as psychological work and spiritual practice form a kind of social action. Our heart becomes unshuttered making new depths possible for the self and others.

The Unshuttered Heart: Opening Aliveness/Deadness in the Self

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Why should Christians bother to read Carl Jung? He may be one of the most famous psychologists of the twentieth century, but are his views and ideas really compatible with Christian faith? While acknowledging some Christian suspicion of Jung, Ann Belford Ulanov and Alvin Dueck maintain that Jung's psychology can indeed enhance the life of faith.

The Living God and Our Living Psyche: What Christians Can Learn from Carl Jung

Dueck, Alvin

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Distinguished psychoanalyst and educator Ann Ulanov has gathered in this noteworthy volume a collection of essays she has written and delivered over some twenty years on the subject of issues related to religious belief and its difficulties in the work of Carl Jung. The essays fall into three areas: Jung and Religion and Politics which include essays on Religion and Jung's View, Jung and Prayer, and Scapegoating; Teaching Jung on Religion which includes Jung and the Study of Religion, Teaching Jung in a Theological Seminary and a Graduate School of Religion, and Jung and Religion; the Relationship of Jung to Religion and Psychological Issues which includes A Shared Space, the Anxiety of Being, Between Anxiety and Faith: The Role of the Feminine in Tillich's Theological Thought, and Religious Devotion or Masochism: Thérèse of Lisieux. These essays will make stimulating reading for students and professionals in the field of religion, theology, or spirituality, as well as for anyone with an interest in Carl Jung.

Religion and the Spiritual in Carl Jung

Paulist Pr

The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology

Northwestern Univ Pr

The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology investigates the implications for Christian theology of Jung's special insights into the feminine. In it, Ann Belford Ulanov gathers together in one volume what Jung and Jungians have discovered about the feminine in order to explore what Jungian thought and methods may illuminate about the place of the feminine in Christian theology. Jung focuses on the human person and sees as central its mixture of masculine and feminine elements. In a time when so much is asserted and written about women in society—their rights, roles, identities, needs, and contributions—it is especially significant that Jung asserts the existence of the feminine as a key element, not only in women but in men as well. No less contested are the roles and identities of Christians. Ulanov brings into focus the deep and fascinating connections between theology and psychology.

Northwestern University Press

The Female Ancestors of Christ

Shambhala

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Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality

Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality

Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology and Theology of the Feminine

Religion and the Unconscious

The Unshuttered Heart: Opening Aliveness/Deadness in the Self

The Living God and Our Living Psyche: What Christians Can Learn from Carl Jung

Religion and the Spiritual in Carl Jung

The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology

The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology

The Female Ancestors of Christ