Religious belief, values, and psychotherapy

Conflicts between religious values, personal needs, and the demands of society are inevitable in the lives of all. The healthy person is able to resolve these conflicts, or he learns to live with them. The unhealthy person incorporates them into his neurotic personality. They can become such as to b...

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Main Author: Vaughan, Richard P. 1919- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [1963]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 1963, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 198-209
Further subjects:B Neurotic Personality
B Open Approach
B Healthy Person
B Religious Belief
B Direct Fashion
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Summary:Conflicts between religious values, personal needs, and the demands of society are inevitable in the lives of all. The healthy person is able to resolve these conflicts, or he learns to live with them. The unhealthy person incorporates them into his neurotic personality. They can become such as to block all progress in therapy. Unless they are handled in some direct fashion, the patient may never attain that inner freedom needed to reorient his distorted values and ideals. In some cases, therefore, the therapist may be forced to take an open approach to religious and moral values, even if this means influencing the patient's values in the direction of the therapist's value system.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF01533334