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Author Rieff, Philip, 1922-2006.

Title The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud ; with a new preface / Philip Rieff.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
1966.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  150.195 R553T    Check Shelf
Edition University of Chicago Press edition.
Description xvi, 274 pages ; 21 cm
Note Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1966.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introductory : Toward a theory of culture -- The analytic attitude : Freud's legacy and its inheritors -- The impoverishment of Western culture -- Community and therapy -- In defense of the analytic attitude -- The therapeutic as theologian : Jung's psychology as language of faith -- The therapeutic as martyr : Reich's religion of energy -- The therapeutic as mythmaker : Lawrence's true Christian philosophy -- The triumph of the therapeutic.
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence.
Civilization, Western -- Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Psychoanalysis and religion.
Guilt -- Social aspects.
Narcissism.
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