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P. Gay is Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor
of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Director, Center for
the Study of Religion and Culture. He is also on the Editorial Board
of The Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic
Studies, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion. He is a
faculty member of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, from which
he graduated in 1990. He was certified in Adult Psychoanalysis in
1990 by the American Psychoanalytic Association and was made a Training
and Supervising Analyst in December, 1994. His book, Freud on
Sublimation: Reconsiderations, published in 1992, won the Heinz
Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
His most recent book, Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis,
was published in 2001. Professor Gay's research interests include
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the psychodynamic study of culture,
the comparative history of religions, and the psychology of religion.
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