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PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION & HEALING by Leslie D. Weatherhead
A Survey of the Methods of Healing Through Psychology and Religion

Weatherhead had a close connection to the Oxford Group and his book Discipleship contains a virtual manual on the Oxford Group principles that found their way into A.A.

In Boston, about 1905, The Emmanuel Movement arose which recognized the value of body, mind and spirit in the treatment and healing of illnesses, including alcoholism. An early book describing the Emmanuel Movement was Religion and Medicine. Weatherhead's book Psychology, Religion and Healing is an extension of that work and examines the methods of healing through mind and spirit.

Abingdon Press, copyright 1952-revised, 541 pages,

PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION and HEALING. A critical study of all the non-physical methods of healing, with an examination of the principles underlying them and the techniques employed to express them, together with some conclusions regarding further investigation and action in this field by LESLIE D. WEATHERHEAD, M.A. (Manch.), PH.D. (Lond.), HON. D.D. (Edin.), Minister of the City Temple, London, Honorary Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces. Hodder and stoughton limited. First Published Sept 1951. Reprinted Dec. 1951, 2nd Ed. revised and enlarged, 1952. Reprinted with further revision, 1955. Sampling of CONTENTS: SUMMARY OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD BY THE REV. DR. ERIC S. WATERHOUSE; FORWARD BY DR. GEOFFREY EVANS; PREFACE. INTRODUCTION-MAN'S EARLIEST SEARCH FOR HEALING. SECTION ONE - EARLIER METHODS OF HEALING THROUGH RELIGION. I. CHRIST'S HEALING MIRACLES, II. HEALING IN THE EARLY CHURCH, III. THE PROBLEM OF DEMON POSSESSION. SECTION TWO - EARLIER METHODS OF HEALING THROUGH PSYCHOLOGY. I. MESMERISM, II. HYPNOTISM, III. SUGGESTION. SECTION THREE - MODERN METHODS OF HEALING THROUGH RELIGION. I. THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, II. THE PHENOMENA OF LOURDES, III. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, IV. HEALING MISSIONS, V. PSYCHIC PHENOMENA AND HEALING, VI. OTHER RELIGIOUS HEALING MOVEMENTS, VII. THE PRACTICE OF INTERCESSION. SECTION FOUR - MODERN METHODS OF HEALING THROUGH PSYCHOLOGY. I - VI., SECTION FIVE. DO MODERN PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS OF HEALING NEED RELIGION? I. - VII., SECTION SIX. DO MODERN RELIGIOUS METHODS OF HEALING NEED PSYCHOLOGY? I - III., SECTION SEVEN - THE MODERN SEARCH FOR HEALING THROUGH PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION. I - IV. APPENDICES; 1 -6., BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX OF PROPER NAMES, INDEX OF SUBJECTS. This may be one of the best scholarly presentations in the field. This is a hardcover with dustjacket of over 500 fact-filled pages. The cover is a little worn and torn along the edges and folds but the book is in pretty good condition with only a previous owners sig on Ist end page to distract from the near-new condition. The interior is tight, clean and otherwise without marks. Buyer to pay 3.00 S&H. Please view my other auctions to possibly combine freight. Thanks for viewing.