H. John McDargh
Associate Professor
H. John McDargh
Contact
Email: john.mcdargh@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Emory University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Psychological study of religious development
The integration of spirituality and psychotherapy
Contemporary psychoanalytic theory and theological anthropology
Department
Selected Publications
"Men and Meaning: Reveling in Intricacy," Pastoral Psychology (festschrift edition in honor of James Dittes), forthcoming.
“Reveling in Complexity: James Dittes’ Male Metaphors and Their Bearing on the Crisis of Clergy Sexual Abuse,” Pastoral Psychology, November 2003 52(1/2), 147-1652.
“Faith Development Theory and the Post-Modern Problem of Foundations”. International Journal of the Psychology of Religion 11 (3), 2001: pp. 185-200.
Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory and the Study of Religion: On Faith and the Imaging of God. Washington: University Press of America, 1983 [in third printing].
"Spiritual Conceptions of Love," Encyclopedia of Psychology. American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, 2000
"Creating a New Research Paradigm for the Psychoanalytic Study of Religion: The Pioneering Work of Ana-Maria Rizzuto", in Janet Jacobs and Donald Capps (eds.), Religion, Society and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary Theory. Westview Press, 1997.