Medieval confession practices and the emergence of modern psychotherapy
John D. Richardson|Destin N. Stewart
This article explores the relationship of developments in medieval confession practices to emergence modern selfhood and psychotherapy. While there is great contrast between self-concepts, emergent focus upon individual late served as fuel for ideology modernity. The cultural historian Anthony Low wrote that early viewed severity wrongs done relation their hindrance maintenance believing community. Later, however, shifted from communal direct divine. There seems have been a shift an emphasis on restoration more individualized regulation “unruly” desires through discourse. later regulating human impulses discourse related psychoanalysis “homeostasis” principle.
Mental Health, Religion & Culture