Samuel M. Stein is a South African psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and currently works as a consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. He has maintained a longstanding interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has written a number of articles within these fields. He has written and contributed to several works including 'Essentials of Psychotherapy' and 'Psychotherapy in Practice: A life in the Mind'.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- “The God I want” -- In whose image? -- An agnostic’s spirituality -- A good-enough God? Some psychology-theology crossing places -- Psychotherapy and religion -- Reflections of an analytical psychologist on God, religion, and spirituality -- Reflections about God (Yehovah) and religion -- A former Jesuit and an agnostic Jew talk about religion over a cup of coffee -- The Spirit of God -- Freud, feminism, and religion -- Religion and science in psychoanalysis -- A religious man who doesn’t believe in God

'The burden once put upon natural scientists is here shouldered by psychotherapists. We are invited to ask: "Can psychotherapy go beyond belief?" This collection of essays is a wonderfully varied set of answers by a wide range of people - from left-wing socialists to a clutch of ex-theologians, from psychiatrists to psychoanalysts, Jungians to Freudians, Jews to Catholics, agnostics to the devout. And how agreeable such an encompassing group seems to be when it comes to God. They write, almost without exception, with a serious sympathy, gently negotiated disagreements and reservations and an almost hallowed kind of honoring.'- Bob Hinshelwood, From the Foreword

Samuel M. Stein is a South African psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and currently works as a consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. He has maintained a longstanding interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has written a number of articles within these fields. He has written and contributed to several works including 'Essentials of Psychotherapy' and 'Psychotherapy in Practice: A life in the Mind'.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- “The God I want” -- In whose image? -- An agnostic’s spirituality -- A good-enough God? Some psychology-theology crossing places -- Psychotherapy and religion -- Reflections of an analytical psychologist on God, religion, and spirituality -- Reflections about God (Yehovah) and religion -- A former Jesuit and an agnostic Jew talk about religion over a cup of coffee -- The Spirit of God -- Freud, feminism, and religion -- Religion and science in psychoanalysis -- A religious man who doesn’t believe in God

'The burden once put upon natural scientists is here shouldered by psychotherapists. We are invited to ask: "Can psychotherapy go beyond belief?" This collection of essays is a wonderfully varied set of answers by a wide range of people - from left-wing socialists to a clutch of ex-theologians, from psychiatrists to psychoanalysts, Jungians to Freudians, Jews to Catholics, agnostics to the devout. And how agreeable such an encompassing group seems to be when it comes to God. They write, almost without exception, with a serious sympathy, gently negotiated disagreements and reservations and an almost hallowed kind of honoring.'- Bob Hinshelwood, From the Foreword

Samuel M. Stein is a South African psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and currently works as a consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. He has maintained a longstanding interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has written a number of articles within these fields. He has written and contributed to several works including 'Essentials of Psychotherapy' and 'Psychotherapy in Practice: A life in the Mind'.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- “The God I want” -- In whose image? -- An agnostic’s spirituality -- A good-enough God? Some psychology-theology crossing places -- Psychotherapy and religion -- Reflections of an analytical psychologist on God, religion, and spirituality -- Reflections about God (Yehovah) and religion -- A former Jesuit and an agnostic Jew talk about religion over a cup of coffee -- The Spirit of God -- Freud, feminism, and religion -- Religion and science in psychoanalysis -- A religious man who doesn’t believe in God

'The burden once put upon natural scientists is here shouldered by psychotherapists. We are invited to ask: "Can psychotherapy go beyond belief?" This collection of essays is a wonderfully varied set of answers by a wide range of people - from left-wing socialists to a clutch of ex-theologians, from psychiatrists to psychoanalysts, Jungians to Freudians, Jews to Catholics, agnostics to the devout. And how agreeable such an encompassing group seems to be when it comes to God. They write, almost without exception, with a serious sympathy, gently negotiated disagreements and reservations and an almost hallowed kind of honoring.'- Bob Hinshelwood, From the Foreword