Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- References
- Index
9 - Trading zones between psychology and Catholicism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- References
- Index
Summary
Let us turn, now, to areas within the contested boundaries where there has been commerce between psychology and the Church. Drawing on Peter Galison's notion of a “trading zone,” we will see how hybrids of psychology and Catholic thought have developed in select areas.
What has happened at boundaries between psychology and Roman Catholicism from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth? That is what this entire book has been about. One of the things that occurred – as we saw above in examining the institutionalizing of psychology within the Church communities – was the establishment of new institutions within Catholic settings. Many of the psychologists who were active in setting them up were themselves clerics, so it was not as outsiders that they crossed the boundaries. In the course of forming these institutions, interesting things happened. There was the contesting of boundaries, to be sure; however, there was also commerce on the frontier as different cultures got to know each other. Fruitful exchanges across the boundaries had been desired since the beginnings of modern psychology. Charles Bruehl (1923d), who was one of the earliest Catholic commentators on Freud, as we saw in Chapter 5, made a plea for ties between “the psychopathic clinic” and “spiritual guidance.” Using the metaphor of the “boundary” that has been the mainstay of this book, Bruehl wrote that the “young science” of psychiatry “is tempted to trespass on foreign territory” (p. 245) in treating the religious difficulties of patients.
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- Psychology and CatholicismContested Boundaries, pp. 351 - 395Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011