Psychoanalytic practice and the religious patient: a current perspective.
Via a national survey and in-depth interviews, the author investigated training psychoanalysts' views on religion and spirituality and the impact of such views on their treatment practices. The training analysts surveyed described being appreciative of a patient's religious or spiritual worldview when it allowed for flexibility in its theological tenets or when it played a psychologically supportive role. In most instances, empathy for a suffering human being together with the desire to enter a patient's subjective field of experience overrode analysts' personal and professional biases vis-à-vis religious involvement, when these were present.
Bartoli
Eleonora
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University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylavania, USA. bartoli@pobox.upenn.edu
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology