Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam - 9780367086718

Taylor & Francis

Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic IslamCultural and Clinical Dialogues\nAuthor(s): Ian Parker, Sabah Siddiqui\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367086718, 978-0367086718\nSynopsis\nThis pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the tensions that exist between them. \n\nUniting authors from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives, including Freudian, Jungian, Lacanian, Object-Relations, and Group-Analytic, the book creates a dialogue through which several key questions can be addressed. How can Islam be rendered amenable to psychoanalytic interpretation? What might an Islamic psychoanalysis look like that accompanies and questions the forms of psychoanalysis that developed in the West? And what might a psychoanalytic Islam look like that speaks for, and pe.