1. An introduction; 2. The major fault line: modernism and psychology; 3. Neoscholastic psychology; 4. Psychology as the boundary: Catholicism, spiritualism, and science; 5. Psychoanalysis versus the power of will; 6. From out of the depths: Carl Jung's challenges and Catholic replies; 7. Institutionalizing the relationship; 8. Humanistic psychology and Catholicism: dialogue and confrontation; 9. Trading zones between psychology and Catholicism; 10. Crossings.
This study of psychology and Catholicism aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion.
Robert Kugelmann is a professor of psychology at the University of Dallas. He has written two previous books: The Windows of Soul (1983) and Stress: The Nature and History of Engineered Grief (1992).
'Kugelmann has done a masterful job of documenting a major set of
developments with psychology and with US Roman Catholicism from
obscurity, while integrating many diverse literatures and strands
of scholarship in psychology, history, theology, philosophy, and
their relevant subspecialties. Were the opening chapter required
reading in every psychology of religion course, as well as every
Christian seminary and pastoral counseling program, it would
elevate the level of discourse in the field tremendously.' Brian H.
McCorkle, Boston University
'This is an insightful study about the many relationships and the
many forms of Catholicism and the equally pluralistic science of
modern psychology. Well informed, Kugelmann gives a lucid and fair
account of both the struggles and [the] encounters as they have
taken place in the United States of America. Detailed and precise,
the volume may well serve as a model for research into the
complexities of the situation in other countries, and is a
must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary relations
between religion and psychology in general.' Jacob A. Belzen,
University of Amsterdam
'Kugelmann has marshalled an extraordinary wealth of original
archival research and a keen sensitivity to the historical,
cultural, and theological world of twentieth-century Catholicism in
telling the story of the encounter between scientific psychology
and the Church. This volume is essential for any historian of the
human sciences exploring the ways late modernity and religious
institutional life met one another during the last century.'
Vincent W. Hevern, S. J., Le Moyne College
'The author's great passion for his subject shines through this
book, and I was certainly enlightened by his clear, detailed
account of this very complex subject.' The Psychologist
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