Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.

• Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Part One , The Nature of Primitive Religion , Mature Religion , The Judaeo-Christian Tradition , Religious Wisdom From the East , Socrates – Religious Teacher in Classical Greece , The Relation Between the Moral and the Spiritual , Towards a Definition of Religion , Part Two , Freud’s Diagnosis of Religion , Meissner’s Critique of Freud , The Challenge of Jung , From Causal to Moral in Psychoanalysis , The Current Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Religion , Erich Fromm’s Assessment of Religion , Part Three , The Human Condition , Narcissism and the Human Condition , The Transformation of Narcissism through Psychoanalysis , Part Four , The Domain of Psychoanalysis , Conscience and the Super-Ego , Self-Knowledge, virtue and mental health , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality in the World , Science and Religion , Conclusion

'...a terrific book...I do think here the teaching of years has been most superbly and satisfyingly and deeply worked out, and knitted into a stunningly impressive whole.'- Dr. Nina Coltart, author of How to Survive as a Psychotherapist