Transference and the idea of God

While many factors influence the course of therapy, based on empirical evidence a strong case can be made for the importance of religious beliefs influencing the process of transference. During a ten-year period of private psychiatric practice, the senior author saw 353 patients suffering from anxie...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:  
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs: Palermo, George B. (Auteur) ; Gumz, Edward J. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
En cours de chargement...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [1989]
Dans: Journal of religion and health
Année: 1989, Volume: 28, Numéro: 4, Pages: 255-263
Sujets non-standardisés:B Religious Belief
B Empirical Evidence
B Senior Author
B Clinical Evidence
B Psychotropic Drug
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Description
Résumé:While many factors influence the course of therapy, based on empirical evidence a strong case can be made for the importance of religious beliefs influencing the process of transference. During a ten-year period of private psychiatric practice, the senior author saw 353 patients suffering from anxiety and neurotic depression. The form of treatment was individual, dynamic, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy with occasional use of psychotropic drugs. Forty percent of the patients who were seen were Catholic; forty percent were Protestant; and twenty percent were Jewish.Protestants, Catholics, and Jews bring differing conceptions of God to the transference phenomenon in individual psychotherapy. Basing findings on extensive clinical evidence, this study seeks to explain why this occurs, and the need for the psychotherapist to be aware of religious factors that influence the course of psychotherapy.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00986064