AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF RELIGIOUSLY COMMITTED, PSYCHOANALYTICALLY ORIENTED CLINICIANS.

Title: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF RELIGIOUSLY COMMITTED, PSYCHOANALYTICALLY ORIENTED CLINICIANS.
Identifier: AAI8629682
identifier: 8629682
Creator: COHEN, EDWIN PETER.
Contributor: Laurence J. Gould
Date: 1986
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Psychology, Clinical
Abstract: This study employs a clinical interviewing methodology to investigate twelve psychoanalytically oriented religiously committed clinicians. The study grounded in object relations theory focuses on three prime questions. (1) How do these clinicians integrate their psychoanalytic and religious perspectives? (2) How did they deal with religious issues in their own treatment? (3) How do they deal with religious issues with their own patients? A major finding of the study was that religious involvement and the nature of the patients' God representations are significantly affected by psychotherapy even when these issues were not significantly addressed in treatment. A dual representational model is proposed which postulates that individuals maintain a highly private, personal God which is employed as a special kind of transitional object, and that this relationship is often cloaked by the employment of a more abstract public God.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Psychology

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