Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue

Carl Waitz, PsyD is an Attending Psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and maintains a small private practice in Brookline, MA. His research and clinical interests include depression, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and treatment of adolescents and young adults. Theresa Clement Tisdale, PhD, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical psychoanalyst in private practice in Glendora, CA. She is also Professor of Clinical Psychology at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Her clinical, teaching, and research interests are psychoanalysis and religion/spirituality, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, spiritual formation, and addressing religion/spirituality in clinical practice.

Part I; 1: Introduction; 2: Lacanian Psychoanalysis: An Overview; 3: Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology: An Overview; 4: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianity; Part II; 5: Oedipus at Eden; 6: God in Analysis; 7: Jouissance and the Body of the Church; 8: The Ethics of Orthodoxy; 9: Ego and Ego Fate; 10: Concluding Reflections