Understanding the Encounter between Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in Scotland (1945-2000) in Theory and Practice

从理论和实践中理解苏格兰基督教、心理治疗和灵性之间的相遇（1945-2000）

• 批准号: AH/H016589/1
• 负责人: David Fergusson
• 金额: $ 32.01万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH016589%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; Encounter; between; Christianity; Psychotherapy

This project aims to understand the ways in which psychotherapy, Christianity and a new language of 'spirituality' intertwined in the period after 1945, focusing primarily on Scotland, but also drawing out connections to developments elsewhere in the UK. Why did the Christian religion and the talking cure, 'the church and the couch', find common ground in a post-war era of secularisation? The answer will contribute to scholarly debates in theology, religious studies, and the history and theory of psychotherapy. The project's results will also inform a professional audience of psychotherapists, counsellors, clergy, and pastoral workers. Furthermore, by engaging in a dialogue with this audience, the project's results will have an additional wider relevance to policy. Psychotherapy is facing a contested process of state regulation in which a medical model of therapy has so far been central. By recovering other ways of understanding psychotherapy - such as the interpersonal pastoral relation - the project will inform this ongoing debate.The project asks three questions. First, how did psychotherapy in post-war Scotland borrow and adapt Christian ideas and practices? A number of figures and organisations will be investigated: the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing's involvement with the Iona community; the network of psychotherapists associated with the philosopher John Macmurray in Edinburgh; and the activities of the psychoanalysts W.R.D. Fairbairn and John D. Sutherland. This is followed by a second complementary question: how did Christianity in post-war Scotland adopt and translate psychotherapeutic ideas and practices? As well as investigating the ideas of theologians such as Ronald Gregor Smith, this part of the project will examine the ways in which the Scottish churches promoted counselling and pastoral care through organisations such as the Scottish Pastoral Association. The project then proceeds to a third, limited and exploratory question: how was this Scottish fusion of Christianity and psychotherapy exported to England? This will focus on the psychotherapist Harry Guntrip, the 'clinical theologian' Brian Lake, and the Clinical Theology Association (the organisation which Lake founded). Two main sources of evidence are investigated: documents and oral-history testimony. The documentary analysis will examine published and unpublished material, including discursive works, personal documents, and institutional records. It will be guided by the interpretive position that even our recent culture is in need of careful expert reconstruction and will explore the underlying rhetoric and metaphors that quietly moulded ideas about religion and psychotherapy. The oral-history testimony will be collected from around fifteen figures who have been selected because of their expertise, commitment and leading institutional roles during this time. Their testimony will be used primarily to understand the personal networks of the time, how the ideas of this period were lived and experienced, and how these led to a certain understanding of the value of the 'examined life'. The project will produce several academic articles, as well as presentations at scholarly conferences, while pursuing other strategies in order to disseminate results more widely. A professional audience of psychotherapists, counsellors, clergy and pastoral workers will be addressed through two conferences hosted at the University of Edinburgh. The project team will also reach their professional audience through events organised with bodies such as The Sutherland Trust, COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland), the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Scottish Churches House, as well as through training of ordinands, a web-site, a project summary, a plain-language report, and articles in practitioner newsletters or journals. Wider impact will be attempted through the website, popular articles and production of a radio programme.

该项目旨在了解1945年后心理治疗，基督教和“灵性”的新语言交织在一起的方式，主要集中在苏格兰，但也与英国其他地方的发展联系起来。为什么基督教和谈话疗法，“教堂和沙发”，在战后的世俗化时代找到了共同点？答案将有助于神学，宗教研究，心理治疗的历史和理论的学术辩论。该项目的结果还将告知心理治疗师、咨询师、神职人员和牧师工作者等专业受众。此外，通过与这些受众进行对话，项目的成果将对政策产生更广泛的影响。心理治疗正面临着一个有争议的国家监管过程中，治疗的医学模式迄今为止一直是中心。通过恢复理解心理治疗的其他方式--如人与人之间的牧灵关系--该项目将为这一正在进行的辩论提供信息。首先，战后苏格兰的心理治疗是如何借鉴和适应基督教的思想和实践的？一些人物和组织将被调查：激进的精神病学家R.D.莱恩与艾奥纳社区的关系;与爱丁堡哲学家约翰·麦克默里（John Macmurray）有关的心理治疗师网络;以及精神分析学家W.R.D. Fairbairn和John D.萨瑟兰接下来是第二个补充问题：战后苏格兰的基督教是如何采用和翻译心理治疗的思想和实践的？除了调查罗纳德格雷戈尔史密斯等神学家的想法外，该项目的这一部分还将研究苏格兰教会通过苏格兰牧师协会等组织促进咨询和牧师关怀的方式。然后，该项目继续到第三个有限的探索性问题：这种苏格兰基督教和心理治疗的融合是如何输出到英格兰的？这将集中在心理治疗师哈里Guntrip，'临床神学家'布赖恩湖，和临床神学协会（该组织的湖成立）。两个主要的证据来源进行了调查：文件和口述历史的证词。文献分析将检查已发表和未发表的材料，包括话语作品，个人文件和机构记录。它将以解释性的立场为指导，即即使是我们最近的文化也需要仔细的专家重建，并将探索潜在的修辞和隐喻，这些修辞和隐喻悄悄地塑造了关于宗教和心理治疗的想法。口述历史的证词将从大约15个人物中收集，这些人物是因为他们的专业知识、承诺和在这段时间内的领导机构作用而被选中的。他们的证词将主要用于了解当时的个人网络，这一时期的思想是如何生活和经历的，以及这些如何导致对“审视生活”价值的某种理解。该项目将发表几篇学术文章，并在学术会议上发表演讲，同时采取其他策略，以便更广泛地传播成果。将通过在爱丁堡大学举办的两次会议向心理治疗师、辅导员、神职人员和牧师等专业听众发表讲话。项目小组还将通过与萨瑟兰信托基金会、苏格兰咨询和心理治疗协会、英国咨询和心理治疗协会和苏格兰教会之家等机构组织的活动，以及通过对神职人员的培训、网站、项目摘要、简明语言报告和从业人员通讯或期刊中的文章，接触专业受众。将通过网站、大众化文章和制作广播节目来扩大影响。

项目成果

Theology and therapy: Maintaining the connection

神学与治疗：维持联系

• DOI: 10.1177/1030570x12469087
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Australasian Theological Studies
• 作者: Fergusson D

Engaging with a history of counselling, spirituality and faith in Scotland: a readers' theatre script.

• DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.928667
• 发表时间: 2014-10-20
• 期刊: British journal of guidance & counselling
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Willis A;Bondi L;Burgess M;Miller G;Fergusson D
• 通讯作者: Fergusson D

Persons in Relation The Interaction of Philosophy, Theology and Psychotherapy in Twentieth-century Scotland

关系中的人二十世纪苏格兰哲学、神学和心理治疗的相互作用

• DOI: 10.1558/prth.v5i3.287
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Practical Theology
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Fergusson D