Self-reparation in religious experience and countertransference.
This work examines the regressive nature of religious experience and suggests that some people's experience repairs the underlying wounds that in part motivated the regression while others remained fixated in the blissful absence of those wounds. It also investigates what takes place in those experiences that become reparative as opposed to what might happen in those that lead to permanent escape. Finally it examines how the author's clinical intervention-including the pertinent countertransference issues-affected the potential of three people's religious experiences to be reparative/transformative or escapist.
Clinical Director, Derek Silva Community, San Francisco, USA. KFauteux@CCCYO.org
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002016:Buddhism; D002835:Christianity; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*; D029181:Spirituality; D014167:Transference, Psychology