Peter Tyler is Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spirituality at St Mary's University, London, UK. He is also a spiritual director and registered psychotherapist in private practice.

• Part 1: Origins of the SoulPrologue: A Night-Dream1. What's in a Name?2. Plato: Our Father in Faith?3. Jesus Amongst the Platonists: Plotinus and Augustine4. Plato in the Desert: Origen and EvagriusPart II: The Return of the Soul5. Otto Rank and the Battle for Freud's Soul6. The Soul-Making of James Hillman: The Return of the Repressed?Part III: Whither the Soul?7. Wittgenstein, Tagore and Merton: The Postmodern Turn8. Edith Stein and Love of the SoulEpilogue: The Symbolic Language of the SoulBibliographyIndex

[The Pursuit of the Soul] is densely packed with robust analysis for theologians, psychologists, and pastoral counselors. ... Tyler offers intriguing insight into the interminable debate between science and religion ... [which] ameliorates the divide and leads to constructive dialogue within both disciplines. ... Tyler is an incredibly erudite scholar in theology, philosophy, and psychology. He writes with great panache, delivering a perceptive monograph for theologians, philosophers of mind, and psychologists concerning the prerequisites for understanding each other’s disciplines and methods.