Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative

By Marie T. Hoffman

Book Overview

In Toward Mutual Recognition, Marie T. Hoffman, coming from a Christian perspective, suggests that the current relational turn in psychoanalysis has been influenced by numerous theorists - analysts and philosophers alike - who were themselves shaped by an embedded Christian narrative. As a result, the redemptive concepts of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection - central to the tenets of Christianity - can be traced to relational theories, emerging analogously in the transformative process of mutual recognition in the concepts of identification, surrender, and gratitude, a trilogy which she develops as forming the "path of recognition." Each movement on this path of recognition is given thought-provoking, in-depth attention.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415999146
• ISBN13: 9780415999144
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"