Healing Souls: Psychotherapy in the Latter-Day Saint Community

by Eric G. Swedin

In this first history of psychotherapy among the Latter-day Saints, Eric G. Swedin describes how modern psychology has affected the "healing of souls" in the LDS community. But he also shows how this community melded its theological doctrines with mainstream psychiatry when secular concepts clashed with fundamental tenets of Mormonism.

The psychological professions pervasive in twentieth-century American society were viewed as dangerous by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252028643
• ISBN13: 9780252028649
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.5"