title: Religious development: a psychoanalytic point of view.
abstract: Psychoanalysis occupies a unique position in the systematic study of religious development. Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.
authors.affiliation: Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rizzuto
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D012069:Religion and Psychology