Miracles of healing: psychotherapy and religion in twentieth-century Scotland [electronic resource] / Gavin Miller.

By: Miller, Gavin [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edinburgh University PressPublisher: Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: viii, 175 pages : online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781474446983 (eISBN)Subject(s): Psychology -- Religion -- Scotland | Psychoanalysis | Psychotherapy | Christianity | Christian Church -- GeneralAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleLOC classification: RC489.R46 .M55 2020Online resources: e-book Full-text access In: JSTOR EBASummary: This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy and figures such as the R.D. Laing and W.R.D. Fairbairn.

Includes index (pages 171-175).

This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy and figures such as the R.D. Laing and W.R.D. Fairbairn.