A Most Accursed Religion: When A Trauma Becomes God [Paperback]

Greg Mogenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2005

Despite its title, this book is not about theology. When a psychologist writes of God, he must do so within the confines of his own field of inquiry, the psyche. Mogenson's aim is to focus attention on the religious dimension of the psychology of those overwhelming events we describe as traumatic. Whether a divine being really exists or not, the psychological fact remains that we tend to experience traumatic events as if they were in some sense divine.

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"Every Christian, Jewish, and Muslim believer should read Mogenson's book — and every psychologist; everyone interested in soul and religion." --Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig

About the Author

Greg Mogenson is a Jungian analyst practicing in London, Ontario, Canada, and the author of God Is a Trauma: Vicarious Religion and Soul-Making, Greeting the Angels: An Imaginal View of the Mourning Process, and The Dove in the Consulting Room.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Spring Publications, Inc.; 1 edition (December 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882145525
• ISBN-13: 978-0882145525
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,022,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable understanding of the religious aspect and impact of trauma upon individual psychology, April 5, 2006

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This review is from: A Most Accursed Religion: When A Trauma Becomes God (Paperback)

A Most Accursed Religion: When A Trauma Becomes God by Jungian analyst Greg Mogenson is an expansive collective study of the authors understanding of theological influence upon the human psyche in the midst of a traumatic experience. As an extension and revision of Mogenson's first book, "God Is A Trauma: Vicarious Religion And Soul-making", A Most Accursed Religion is an evocative and conceptual revision and expository of what the religious dimension of psychology might have in effect with traumatic or extensively painful experiences which human may inevitably be subject to. A Most Accursed Religion is to be given very high praise for its excellence in progressive study and detailing of content, and is strongly recommended to all students of Abrahamic theology (Christianity, Judaism, Islam), as well as students of psychology, as an invaluable understanding of the religious aspect and impact of trauma upon individual psychology.