by: Ignacio Andereggen, Zelmira Seligmann, Martín Echavarria y Gerardo Echevarren1 Father Andereggen and the rest of the members of the Argetinian Allersian Psychology School teach in Buenos Aires as well as in Rome.
Published by Universidad Católica Argentina Editions (EDUCA)
Year:
1999
Pages: 424
Price: $ 28
ISBN: 950-523-124-5
The book is an interdisciplinary work by several Argentinean psychologists and theologians.
It begins with an Introduction by Father Andereggen where he establishes the horizon of a Catholic psychology. Experimental sciences start from a concept of normality, faith teaches that that concept bears the mark of the original sin. One cannot exclude this reality in considering normality, nor exclude faith from the anthropology of man that serves to define what normality is.
The psychologist Z. Seligmann then studies what should be understood by psychotherapy, underlining that it is a way towards the normality in relation with Gods Will. The psychologist must be able to encourage the patient's integral development, according to his real nature as expressed in human nature in conformity with the Divine Will. The rebellion against reality according to God's creation must cease to bring health. The psychotherapist must help the patient to clean his interior from bad feelings and to accept God's view of man,
M. Echevarría proposes a psychology from above, in doing so he uses some of Rudolf Allers' ideas. He studies how pride and lust are opposed to temperance, seeing in this virtue a light for the "interior master" as considered in Agustinian and Thomist psychology.
Father Gerard Echavarren analyzes Freud's ideology expressed in his psychoanalyses in relation with Christian anthropology. He studies different concepts and shows how Freud's ideas are opposed to the Christian view of man and women. The author shows Freud's monism and materialism, and studies how freudism does not help people in need to be freed from their psychological diseases.
Chapters V, VI and VII all
deal with Rudolf Allers' therapy and his application today in accordance with
Christian Anthropology.
INDEX:
- Prólogo
a la segunda edición
- Introducción
- Capítulo I. Psicoterapia. Un camino de
conformidad
- Capítulo II. La soberbia y la lujuria
como patologías centrales de la psique según Alfred Adler y Santo
Tomás de Aquino
- Soberbia y lujuria según Adler y Santo Tomás
- Psicología profunda de la soberbia y la lujuria
- Capítulo III. Sigmund Freud y la Antropología
Cristiana
- Prólogo
- Apéndice
- Sintesis teológica de la sexualidad
- Conclusión
- Capítulo IV. Psicología posmoderna
y mística
- Capítulo V. Neurosis, Santidad y Pecado
en la obra de Rudolf Allers, by M.E. Echabarría
- Capítulo VI. Reflexiones sobre la patología
del conflicto, Rudolf Allers
- Capítulo VII. El amor y el instinto, estudio
psicológico, Rudolf Allers
- Capítulo VIII. La ley y la Gracias según
Santo Tomás de Aquino
- Resumen