title: The psychological gains and losses of religious conversion.
abstract: A presentation of case material demonstrating productive identify formation and conflict resolution resulting from religious conversion with at the same time significant repression that so affected personal relatedness as to eventually lead to breakdown of adjustment.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept