Spiritualism and the Foundations of C. G. Jung's Psychology
Spiritualism and the Foundations of C. G. Jung's Psychology

Author: F. X. Charet

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0791498786

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Charet uncovers some of the reasons why Jung's psychology finds itself living between science and religion. He demonstrates that Jung's early life was influenced by the experiences, beliefs, and ideas that characterized Spiritualism and that arose out of the entangled relationship that existed between science and religion in the late nineteenth century. Spiritualism, following it inception in 1848, became a movement that claimed to be a scientific religion and whose controlling belief was that the human personality survived death and could be reached through a medium in trance. The author shows that Jung's early experiences and preoccupation with Spiritualism influenced his later ideas of the autonomy, personification, and quasi-metaphysical nature of the archetype, the central concept and one of the foundations upon which he built his psychology.

Spiritism and Psychology
Spiritism and Psychology

Author: Theodore Flournoy

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1602063567

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Spiritism and Psychology is a study of paranormal phenomenon from the standpoint of an accomplished psychologist. In this book, originally published in 1911, Flournoy explains why spiritism, the belief that people can speak to the dead, is impossible. He insists that spiritism can be explained through worldly and scientific means, if one admits some "supernormal" powers to average humans. Piece by piece, Flournoy deals with the major claims of spiritism, exposing how each can be explained through different means. An essential read for anyone interested in the occult, this book was considered a groundbreaking work in its time. Swiss professor THEODORE FLOURNOY (1854-1920) wrote a number of books on spiritism and is best remembered for From India to the Planet Mars (1900), which studied Hlne Smith, a medium who recalled past lives, including one lived in India.

Spiritism and Mental Health
Spiritism and Mental Health

Author: Emma Bragdon

Publisher: Singing Dragon

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0857010395

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Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. Leading practitioners and researchers in the field describe the history, principles and diagnostic processes of the Spiritist approach to mental health, and provide an extensive summary of the various methodologies used, including spiritual mediumship, energy work, prayer, homeopathy, past life regression and the practice of integrating spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy. Considering the ways in which Spiritism aligns with contemporary science, they show that the Spiritist model has the potential to bring about a positive transformation in the ways in which mental health care is conceptualized and delivered around the globe. The final part of the book explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA. Providing important new insights into the rich tradition of Brazilian Spiritism, this authoritative text will be of interest to mental health professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and complementary health practitioners.

Making Spirit Matter
Making Spirit Matter

Author: Larry Sommer McGrath

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-10-19

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 022669982X

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The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven’t been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath’s Making Spirit Matter studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The scientific revolution taking place at this point in history across disciplines, from biology to psychology and neurology, located our mental powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of society, spirit, and the self. Tracing connections among thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, and others, McGrath plots alternative intellectual movements that revived themes of creativity, time, and experience by applying the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and religion. Making Spirit Matter lays out the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain today.

Secular Spirituality
Secular Spirituality

Author: Lynn L. Sharp

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780739113394

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Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reincarnation as a path to progress for individuals and society. Leaders like Allan Kardec argued for social reform; spiritist groups strove for equality; and women mediums challenged gender roles. Lynn L. Sharp looks closely at what it meant to practice spiritism, analyszing the movement's social and political critique and explaining the popularity of the new belief. She explores points of convergence and conflict in the interplay between spiritism and science, spiritism and psychology, and spiritism and the Catholic church to argue that the nineteenth century was not as 'disenchanted' as has been thought. Secular Spirituality successfully places spiritism within a larger cultural conversation, going beyond the leaders of the movement to look at the way spiritism functioned for its followers.

Putting the Soul Back in Psychology
Putting the Soul Back in Psychology

Author: John White

Publisher: IVP Books

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780877849797

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Asserting that modern psychology cannot solve the dilemmas of guilt, sin and meaninglessness, John White challenges the church to embrace its God-given commission to bring help and healing to a broken world. 96 pages, paper

Spiritism
Spiritism

Author: Eduard von Hartmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1108052711

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Published in 1885, this was one of the first works to attempt a complete psychological explanation of all occult phenomena.

Kardec's Spiritism
Kardec's Spiritism

Author: E. Bragdon

Publisher:

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780962096051

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"This book is an extraordinary introduction to the wellness tradition of Brazilian Spiritists. Dr. Bragdon captured the essence of this grassroots model that will one day transform our medical care environment."--John Zerio, Ph.D., president of the Allan Dardec Educational Society.