Gaze of Grace: Revisiting the Immaculate Conception in Light of DW Winnicott’s Concept of Maternal-Infant Mirroring

This article appeared in the Union Seminary Quarterly Review, in the 2016 festschrift honoring my advisor and mentor Ann Ulanov.

Studying under Ann Ulanov in the Department of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary was an opportunity to bring depth psychology and theology together in a way that fed my soul for eight years.

Dr. Ulanov’s interdisciplinary methods as a teacher left room for the world of religion and the world of psychoanalysis to be explored and appreciated separately, and each for their own strengths. Yet there was always a powerful discovery to be made when psychological insight met theological wisdom. Continue reading...