Neville Symington

How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in A Healing Conversation. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly...

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus on the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. He examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from "blindness" to "founding an...