This book brings a fresh perspective to the subject of religion and psychoanalysis that will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic therapists and psychodynamic counsellors

David M. Black is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and teaches on a number of professional trainings. He has published widely on psychoanalysis in relation to religion, consciousness and values.

Black, Introduction. Part I: The Possibility of Religious Truth. Blass, Beyond Illusion: Psychoanalysis and the Question of Religious Truth. Davids, "Render Unto Caesar What is Caesar's": Speculations on the Interface Between Psychoanalysis and Religion. Black , "Positions" as Grades of Consciousness: The Case for a Contemplative Position. Part II: Religious Stories that Tell Psychological Truth. Britton, Emancipation from the Superego: A Clinical Study of the Book of Job. Millar, The Christmas Story: A Psychoanalytic Enquiry. Part III: The Nature and Functioning of Religious Experiences. Parsons, Ways of Transformation. Rubin, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality. Grier, Reflections on the Phenomenon of Adoration in Relationships, Both Human and Divine. Wright, Preverbal Experience and the Intuition of the Sacred. Symington, Religion: The Guarantor of Civilization. Part IV: Echoes Between Psychoanalysis and Specific Religious Traditions. Frosh, Psychoanalysis and Judaism. Epstein, The Structure of No-structure: Winnicott's Concept of Unintegration and the Buddhist Notion of No-self. Cunningham, Vedanta and Psychoanalysis. Bomford, A Simple Question?