In this major work a noted psychoanalyst assesses the the modern issue between traditional religion and a philosophy that takes as the sole aim of life the satisfaction of instinctive and material values.this book discusses: The problem, Freud and jung, An analisysis of some types of relogious experience, The psychoanalyst as"physician of the soul", Is psychoanalysis a threat to religion nor its ally that is concerned with the human reality behind theological doctrines and with the realization of the human values underlying all great religious teachings of the east and west.