A Boyish God - Couverture souple

Olsson, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798218552220

Editeur : Boyish God, 2000

Synopsis

The story involves a young man, Will Powers, who is in the throes of malignant self-absorption and a potential victim of a satanic cult led by his father, who is the " leader" of a satanic group that regularly sacrifices animals. Fortunately, Will becomes involved in a successful but, at times, disturbing psychotherapy with a psychiatrist who has keen insights and is able to handle the powerful emotions that inevitably arise. As the psychotherapy unfolds, the evil dynamics behind destructive leaders is exposed.

The book includes an intriguing final section called "Existential Addenda," " an emotional revery involving a lecture sermon about a 'cure' of evil pedophile priests. And, II--- A dream of a psychiatrist's benevolent therapeutic revenge, which includes a confrontation (in a dream) with the parents of Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and other destructive leaders. The author concludes this section by noting, "Spiritual salvation never results from simply believing the correct idea or practicing a correct ritual. Spiritual salvation or wholeness requires hard psychological and spiritual work. The mind God created in a child needs to be treated respectfully and gently, like a valuable, delicate flower. Narrow, rigid, judgmental teaching can pervert it."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

After attending Wheaton College, Peter Olsson trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After an internship in mixed medicine at the University of Vermont, Dr. Olsson took a psychiatry residency at Baylor (1968-1971). He served as a psychiatrist at Oakland Naval Hospital from 1971-73, running the substance abuse unit and working with the POWs returning from Vietnam prisons. Olsson later graduated from the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston and practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy while teaching psychotherapy in Houston for 25 years and subsequently in New Hampshire from 1995-2011.In September 2011, Peter Olsson retired from active clinical work to write full-time. He was formerly an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and an adjunct professor of clinical psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Olsson received the Judith Baskin Offer Prize in 1980 for his paper, "Adolescent involvement in Cults and the Supernatural." Dr. Olsson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and a distinguished American Psychiatric Association life fellow.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boyish God
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798218552220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible