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The Image of God and the Psychology of Religion (Paperback)
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What are the implications of a client's image of God? Improve your
confidenceand your practice skillsby enhancing your knowledge of
how individuals are likely to perceive God, and of how those
perceptions impact the way they function as human beings.
Theologians have long speculated and theorized about how humans
imagine God to be. This book merges theology with science,
presenting empirical research focused on perceptions of God in a
variety of populations living in community and mental health
settings. Each chapter concludes with references that comprise an
essential reading list, and the book is generously enhanced with
tables that make data easy to access and understand. Liberating
Images of God discusses the constriction and impoverishment of God
images due to the traditional restrictions of God images to those
that are male and personified. This chapter examines the potential
for the client and counselor's co-creation of images of God which
embrace the feminine as well as the masculine, the nurturer as well
as the warrior, and the natural world in all its dimensions as well
as the human world, to liberate, enrich, sustain, and transform the
client's relationships with God and with him/herself. Attachment,
Well-Being, and Religious Participation Among People with Severe
Mental Disorders examines the relationship between attachment
states of mind and religious participation among people diagnosed
with severe mental illness. Concepts of God and Therapeutic
Alliance Among People with Severe Mental Disorders explores the
transferential aspects of God representation among severely
mentally ill adults. It highlights research on the relationship
between a patient's image of God and that patient's working
relationship with his/her case manager, and discusses the
implications for clinical practice of those findings. The
Subjective Experience of God presents a theory about the
psychological basis for the experience of God that argues that this
experience is essentially a form of projection and as such is an
internal event that does not exist independent of an individual's
psyche. This chapter draws a distinction between faith in a
particular beliefnamely, faith in the existence of a loving,
omnipotent Godand an attitude of faith, which is the basis for
experiences of transcendence. Relationship of Gender Role Identity
and Attitudes presents the results of a study in which nearly 300
Catholic attendees at three university Catholic centers completed
the Bern Sex Role Inventory, the Attitudes Toward Women Scale, and
the Perceptions of God Checklist. This chapter looks at images of
God as masculine or feminine, and at the connection for people
between the way they perceive God and the way they relate towards
men and women. Reflections on a Study in a Mental Hospital, brings
you groundbreaking new research on perceptions of God in an
inpatient population. This chapter examines the positive effects
(as opposed to the negative effects previously portrayed by the
psychological community) of religious belief and practice for
residential care patients in a psychiatric hospital.
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