George Makari. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind.

Matytsin, Anton

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“…George Makari (2015) tracked the evolution of Western conceptions of mind from an earlier conception of soul, in parallel with a move from faith to reason in European epistemology. The soul belonged to the transcendent realm of spirituality that was the domain of the Catholic Church, a mystery that was accessible only to priests.…”

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Spirituality, selfhood, and social class in psychotherapy.

Altman¹

2022

Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice.

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In a context of specialized academic disciplines, these aspects of human life tend to be considered in isolation from each other. However, social class, interacting with culture, religious affiliation or the lack of same, and a variety of other factors, influences help-seeking behavior, how people feel helped, and the way they interact with helpers. For example, in general, people of upper middle class and above, around the world, are relatively likely to turn to secular mental health professionals, whereas people of lower middle class and below are relatively likely to turn to ministers, priests, rabbis, or imams as counselors, or to a spiritual healer in their community (Chalfant et al., 1990). Our experience is holistic, however, and all these facets continually interact. Before attempting the integration of these various threads, highlighting social class, let me bring you in on some of my own development to date at this confluence of identities and commitments.

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Spirituality, selfhood, and social class in psychotherapy.

Altman¹

2022

Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice.

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“…As George Makari (2015) is only the most recent scholar to argue, the United States was founded on a radical Lockean metapsychology that assumed unlimited resources, boundless potentials, the inevitability of progress, and a confidence that all problems can be solved with common sense and individual ingenuity (and, one might add, with denial about the genocides necessary to support that mythology). We Americans burden our children with the psychotically omnipotent message that they can be anything they want to be, can accomplish anything they set their minds to do-a setup for depression when the reality of one's limits becomes clear.…”

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Psychoanalytic reflections on limitation: Aging, dying, generativity, and renewal.

McWilliams¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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In this written version of a talk given to a Division 39 audience, the author reflects on issues of limitation, including mortality. She addresses the evident reluctance of many analysts to engage at a personal level, both clinically and theoretically, with aging, loss of function, and dying and invites a conversation about how elderly therapists may prepare for the impact on their patients of their eventual decline and death. She attributes part of the widespread avoidance of such issues to implicit Western-especially American-cultural ideologies, which are replete with Lockean-era assumptions that resources are boundless, that problems are all fixable, and that individual entitlements are more concerning than communal needs and obligations. She contrasts such attitudes with dominant psychoanalytic sensibilities and clinical knowledge, drawing some inferences for the profession. She considers the positive aspects of limitation, including some ways it opens up possibilities for creativity and generativity. Finally, she takes up specifically the aging of members of Division 39 and other psychoanalytic groups, the accomplishments of the current generation of analysts, and the challenges to be faced by psychoanalytic professionals in the next generation.

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Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2022

Neu¹

2022

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George Makari. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind.

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Spirituality, selfhood, and social class in psychotherapy.

Spirituality, selfhood, and social class in psychotherapy.

Psychoanalytic reflections on limitation: Aging, dying, generativity, and renewal.

Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2022

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