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1. Why Things Matter

   The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion

   By David M. Black

   In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as 'why do we care?' and 'what gives our values power?' using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary biology in order to do so. Why Things Matter explores how the comparatively new scientific...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
2. Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century

   Competitors or Collaborators?

   Edited by David M. Black

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet, from the...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge