Transformative Existential Experiences and the Mental Growth Stages Illustrated by Case Reports
The article describes part of an on-going research on the processes of mental liberation and growth. The original research material is based on qualitative research methods and ethnographic in-depth interviews with drug-addicted persons undergoing treatment. The material is further analysed within a...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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SAGE Publishing
2016
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Archive for the psychology of religion
Année: 2016, Volume: 38, Numéro: 1, Pages: 89-128 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Mentaler Zustand
/ Développement
/ Traumatisme
/ Expérience
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion ZA Sciences sociales |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
mental growth
drug addiction treatment
transformative existential experiences
liberating turning points
creating meaning
recovery
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| Résumé: | The article describes part of an on-going research on the processes of mental liberation and growth. The original research material is based on qualitative research methods and ethnographic in-depth interviews with drug-addicted persons undergoing treatment. The material is further analysed within a framework presented in Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory: mental growth through positive disintegration. This framework was found to be useful in the analysis of the participants’ mental growth processes particularly due to the integration of human’s transcending ability. Participants contribute in describing how transformative existential experiences may promote the process of mental growth. Importance of activating the mental transcending ability is shown to be central in the recovery process. One profound transformative existential experience is described as the possibility to be who you are, an identity experience which elicited the genuine self. The study sheds light on human mental development when the therapy included activation of the spiritual/religious dimension. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6121 |
| Contient: | In: Archive for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15736121-12341319 |