Spirit, Mind, and Brain
A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion
Preeminent psychoanalyst Mortimer Ostow believes that early childhood emotional attachments form the cognitive underpinnings of spiritual experience and religious motivation. His hypothesis, which is verifiable, relies on psychological and neurobiological evidence but is respectful of the human need for spiritual value. Ostow begins by classifying the three parts of the spiritual experience: awe, Spirituality proper, and mysticism. After he pinpoints the psychological origins of these feelings in infancy, he discusses the foundations of religious sentiment and practice and the brain processes associated with spiritual experience. He then focu…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-51120-9
- EAN: 9780231511209
- Produktnummer: 22651262
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'888 KB
- Abbildungen: 0 halftones, 0 tables
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