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Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland

Gavin Miller Edinburgh University Press, 2020 184 pages Hardback, £80.00/paperback, £19.99 ISBN: 9781474446969/9781474446976

Gavin Miller’s , which he calls a ‘work of cultural history’ (p.12), examines the intersection of theology (or religion) and psychotherapy in Scotland. Probing the genesis of this often controversial and misunderstood relationship, Miller’s research reaches back to 1920

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