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Article: Psychology And American Catholicism: From Confession To Therapy? (Briefly Noted).(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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PSYCHOLOGY AND AMERICAN CATHOLICISM: FROM CONFESSION TO THERAPY? By C. KEVIN GILLESPIE, SJ. Crossroad. 214 pp. $24.95.
The new science of psychology--that is, the psychology that took off with Freud, Jung, Adler, and so many others, and has displaced the "old" psychology that went back to Aristotle and Aquinas--has always been a troubled enterprise. From the start, the leading thinkers have fought bitterly over whose approach really reflects the way human beings think, feel, and act. Religious and common-sense critics from outside the field have never been lacking either. This deeply troubled state of psychology is only dimly acknowledged in Jesuit Father C. Kevin ...