The Vatican Council: From Atheism to Analysis
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One striking example of how Freudian analysis can affect the church comes from Méndez' diocese. Recently the Rev. Gregory Lemercier, prior of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Mary of the Resurrection, reported on a four-year-old experiment in psychoanalysis at the abbey, carried out by two analysts, one of them a woman. So far, more than 60 members of the community have taken part. After beginning analysis, 40 monks found themselves so uncertain about their attitude to the monastic life that they left the abbey; some later got married. Those who remained, the prior declared, did so with renewed fervor and conviction.
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