Psychotherapy and the Religiously Committed Patient

Contents Introduction

• Psychotheology of Religious Commitment
• Lost in the No-Man’s-Land Between Psyche and Soul
• Assessing Religious Maturity
• The Religious Patient’s Initial Encounter With Psychotherapy
• Forgiveness: A Spiritual Psychotherapy
• Change in the Client and in the Client’s God
• Latent Theology: A Clinical Perspective on The Future of an Illusion
• The Play of Illusion as an Opening to the Future of the Self: Reflections of a Religious Clinician Occasioned by Rereading The Future of an Illusion
• The Spiritual Emergency Patient: Concept and Example
• Formation Counseling
• Confrontation and the Religious Beliefs of a Client
• Metaphor and Therapy: Theory, Technique, and Practice of the Use of Religious Imagery in Therapy
• The Psychotherapist and Religious Commitment
• Dealing With Proceptive Countertransference-like Issues: The Factor of Psychotherapeutic Ideology
• Psychotherapy as a Religious Process: A Historical Heritage
• Initial Encounters of Religious and Priests With Psychotherapy