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This volume differs from other recent publications on psychoanalysis and religion in drawing upon the entire field of psychoanalytic involvement with religion. It brings together an exceptional combination of theoretical, empirical and clinical studies.

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The psychoanalytic approach to religion has changed radically during the course of the twentieth century. In both clinical and theoretical work in psychoanalysis, developments have taken place that frequently are not noted by persons who assume that all that can be said has been said by Freud.

The study of religious phenomena, persons, events and traditions has always been a substantial part of applied psychoanalysis and here also major developments have taken place. It is no exaggeration to state that the scientific study of religion has been revolutionized by the integration of psychological perspectives, including the field of psychoanalysis.

This volume differs from other recent publications on the topic of psychoanalysis and religion in drawing upon the entire field of psychoanalytic involvement with religion. It is interdisciplinary in approach and unlike other books on the topic brings together an exceptional combination of theoretical, empirical and clinical studies. No other book provides integrated examples of all three types of work.

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Introduction.- After Freud: beyond Freud? On progress in the psychoanalytic psychology of religion; Jacob A. Belzen.- Part I: Changes in psychoanalytic research on religiosity. Clinical and theoretical studies.- One hundred years after Freud declared that religion was a universal obsessional neurosis; Ana-María Rizzuto.- Religious Conflicts in Psychoanalysis: A Case Study; William W. Meissner.- Religious delusion in psychosis and hysteria; Jozef Corveleyn.- Psychoanalytic contributions on the mystical; Dan Merkur.- The Adoration of the Crucified. Lessons for psychoanalysis; Paul Moyaert.- Part II: Changes in the scientific research on religion. Empirical and theoretical studies.- The psychoanalytic study of myth since Freud: Pursuing the dream; Michael Carroll.- Psychoanalysis meets Buddhism: The development of a dialogue; William B. Parsons.- Hinduism and Psychoanalysis: Encounters at the Crossroads of Psyche, Culture, and the Religious; Daniel J. Meckel.- The paternal metaphor revisited in post-Freudian French psychoanalytic anthropology of religion; René Devisch.- Religious subjectivity: Psychoanalytic and philosophical inquiries; James J. DiCenso.- Re-reading Freud´s ´Mourning and Melancholia´: Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalytic study of religion; Diane Jonte-Pace.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.

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