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Book Review and Notice: The Shattered Self: The Psychological and Religious Search for Selfhood

The definition and understanding of selfhood is currently an area of great interest to both psychology and theology. More than that, clergymen, particularly those with interest in pastoral care and counseling, have long had concern as to appropriate ways to relate psychological and theological insights. Theodore McConnell's concise and lucid little book is a helpful survey of six selfhood models of recent psychology, those of Erik Erikson, Gordon Allport, Erich Fromm, Victor Frankl, Rollo May, and Abraham Maslow, together with a variety of theological comparisons and contrasts. Though the author states clearly the limits of such interdisciplinary studies, he is convinced that both psychology and theology have a unique angle of vision on selfhood. Religion can profit by learning from psychology's examination of the basic or core characteristics of selfhood ; psychology and the behavioral sciences need to take account of religion's witness to mystery, fantasy 'and human relationships to nature.