Religious psychodynamics in multiple personalities: suggestions for treatment.
A study of God images, personality splits, and religious lives of seven women with multiple personality disorder shows different God images in primary and secondary personalities. Splits in God images reflect the dynamics of personality splits and splits in parental images. Suggestions are made for dealing with religious material in therapy.
Bowman
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Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
Coons
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Jones
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Oldstrom
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D000328:Adult; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology