Other than "the set pattern": Developing one's own thoughts about spirituality and religion
Title:
Other than "the set pattern": Developing one's own thoughts about spirituality and religion
Author:
Simmonds, Janette Graetz
Appeared in:
Mental health, religion & culture
Paging:
Volume 8 (2005) nr. 4 pages 239-251
Year:
2005-12
Contents:
In qualitative research, psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists who had continued to have a personal interest in religion or spirituality reflected on their religious upbringing. The 25 participants interviewed often gave their responses in what can be identified as narrative form. These narratives articulated participants' often poignant and distinctive, sometimes humorous, experiences. They relate how and why accepted teaching regarding religious and spiritual issues was challenged, usually in adolescence, but for several participants much earlier. Important aspects included differing responses of significant others to the participants' independent thinking, the beginnings of subsequent religious and spiritual questing, and, for some, the decision to become a psychotherapist.
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