Self-reparation in religious experience and countertransference.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry January 1, 2009 Kevin Fauteux
Some people's religious experiences can repair underlying psychological wounds, while others remain fixated in a blissful escape from those wounds. This work examines what makes an experience reparative versus escapist, and how a clinician's intervention—including countertransference issues—affected the potential for three people's religious experiences to be transformative or escapist.