Soul searching

Whatever one thinks of [Frederick Campbell] Crews's indictment, the issues he raises represent important challenges to psychoanalysis and should encourage serious, even soulsearching, thought on the part of psychoanalytic adherents.

After a miscarriage, we went through considerable soulsearching and lifestyle changes.

There is a parallel between President Kennedy's election battlecry—"let's get America moving again"—and the soulsearching going on in Britain.

To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home.

Yet there is little hint in this set of essays (formed mainly of English Catholic voices, though also receiving North American and European contributions) of the trauma or soulsearching with regard to the idea of vocation that this decline has induced in certain other contexts.