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While the termPriestcraft had some negative connotations prior to the sixteenth century, the European Reformation is a prime illustration. The sale of indulgences and fund-raising campaigns of the papacy were repugnant to many Catholics, particularly priests like Martin Luther.
“The Consecration of the Priest,”The Book of Common Prayer. New York, Church Hymnal Corporation and the Seabury Press, 1977, p. 534 (emphasis added).
See, e.g., Lessa, W. A., and Vogt, E. V., eds.,Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach. Evanston, Row, Peterson & Co., 1958.
Pike, J. A., “Sigmund Freud,”Pilgrimage: The Journal of Pastoral Psychotherapy, 1977,5, (2), i.
See, e.g., Pfister, O.,Christianity and Fear, trans. W. H. Johnson. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1948; andPsycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister, trans. E. Mosbacher. London, Hogarth Press, 1963.
See, e.g., Thornton, E.,Professional Education for the Ministry. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1970.
Freud, S.,The Question of Lay Analysis. New York, W. W. Norton, 1950, p. 108.
First published in 1927.
An excellent examination of depth psychology's intellectual roots, including Freud's use of Hume'sTreatise of Human Nature, is Peter Gay'sAge of Enlightenment. New York, Time, Inc., 1966.
Moss, D. M., “Mysticism, the Oceanic Feeling and Other Reflections: An Interview with Therese Benedek,”Pilgrimage: The Journal of Pastoral Psychotherapy, 1975,3, (3), 20.
See, e.g., Menninger, K.,Sparks, ed. L. Freeman. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1973, p. 99ff.
Moss, D. M., “Dialogue at Maresfield Gardens: An Interview with Anna Freud,”Pilgrimage: The Journal of Pastoral Psychotherapy, 1973,2 (1), 5.
Professor Jack Van Hooser of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary's Department of Old Testament Literature and Languages is currently preparing a critique of Freud'sMoses and Monotheism for an article we are writing together.
Zimet, C. N., “The Masters Degree in Applied Psychology: An Issue That Will Not Go Away,”The Psychotherapy Bulletin, 1976,9 (4), 3.
There are presently over 250 Clinical Pastoral Education centers that provide pastoral training for ministers, seminary students, and other religious workers. They are located in psychiatric and general hospitals, penal and correctional institutions, juvenile treatment centers, parishes and intercity missions, community mental health centers, counseling and rehabilitation centers, children's homes, and centers for the aging. Further information may be secured from the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., c/o Interchurch Center, Suite 450, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027.
By “intermodal” I mean individual, short- and long-term psychotherapy, conjoint marital and/or divorce counseling, as well as group psychotherapy, and crisis intervention.
Kohut, H.,The Restoration of the Self. New York, International Universities Press, 1977, p. 271.
In an unpublished paper Kohut makes a similar comment about another award-winning film. His focus is false sexuality, a characteristic so evident inSaturday Night Fever: ... not everything that looks like sex is sex. That beautiful movieThe Last Picture Show, for example, is indeed filled with the sexual activities of adolescents. But there is little joy or significance in their sex. Intercourse for them, I felt, was not an exhilarating goal, sought by them despite anxiety and conflict, but an escape from dreariness and depression. There are only two positive, non-depressive features in the life of the adolescents of this twon-the friendship between two adolescents; and the concern for young people by one older man. What lies behind the emptiness, the depletion of all these adolescent selves? The oedipal rejection? The victory of the father over the son? Or is the implication, as I think likely, that there is parental disinterest toward the younger generation, and that the whole dying town, the dying society of the town, is a symbol for the unresponsiveness, the unempathic self-absorption of the parents ... [personal correspondence].
ThroughoutThe Jungle Books Kipling draws upon this ancient Indian adage as a symbolic expression of life's ideal unity.
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An Episcopal priest, he also serves as Associate Chaplain and Pastoral Consultant to St. Thomas à Becket, Northwestern University, as well as Chairman of the Diocese of Chicago's Advisory Commission on Alcoholism. He is the Book Review Editor of this journal, and a member of the editorial boards ofPilgrimage: The Journal of Pastoral Psychotherapy andPlumbline: Journal of Ministry in Higher Education. He is co-editor of two anthologies and author of many research studies, interprofessional interviews, and poems.
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Moss, D.M. Priestcraft and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: Contradiction or concordance?. J Relig Health 18, 181–188 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01540478
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