A Priest's Affair
Book Details
- Publisher : Free Association Books
- Published : 2004
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir - Catalogue No : 19864
- ISBN 13 : 9781853437649
- ISBN 10 : 1853437646
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This is the story of a Roman Catholic priest in the grip of a new fanaticism - the bigotry that gripped many priests in the wake of the Second Vatican Council - and of his consequential sudden descent into madness. It is also an exploration of deeper existential questions concerning the nature and dangers of personal freedom; the conflicts posed by profoundly different beliefs co-existing within a single creed, and the search for a personal sense of living and the way frustration of desire can lead to madness. By way of this multi-faceted exploration, the author describes processes which find parallels in many contemporary institutions.
About the Author(s)
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.
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