Originating with and still profoundly influenced by Sigmund Freud, contemporary psychotherapeutic theory and practice give rise to new images of the good human life.  Some of these images challenge older images maintained for centuries by religious traditions of the West, Christian and Jewish.  The course examines these images and the extent to which a traditional religious understanding can assimilate positively some of the new psychotherapeutic perspectives and evolve to a fresh, but still genuinely religious, view of human life.

Terrence P. Reynolds, Ph.D., Brown University; Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University.