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Theology and Therapy
This two year project will investigate the relationship between Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in Scotland in the latter half of the twentieth century.
From 2010 to 2011, a team consisting of Professor David Fergusson, Professor Liz Bondi, Dr Steven Sutcliffe and Dr Gavin Miller will investigate the relationship between Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in Scotland in the latter half of the twentieth century.
The project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (a major grant of £250,000), and informally titled "Theology and Therapy", is notable for its interdisciplinary collaboration: the team's expertise covers a wide variety of subject areas, including philosophical theology, religious studies, human geography, and the history of psychotherapy.
The "Theology and Therapy" project is informed by Dr Miller's earlier Leverhulme Trust funded research on Scottish psychoanalysis: this earlier work showed how local theological traditions produced a distinctive Scottish psychoanalytic theory in which interpersonal "communion" was a central concept.
This article was published on Mar 7, 2012