O F Kernberg

Psychoanalytic perspectives on the religious experience.

American Journal of Psychotherapy 2000 O F Kernberg

This paper carries out an analysis of the nature of mature religiosity of the basis of psychoanalytic findings and concepts, rather than attempting a philosophical and theological approach to religion. It highlights a striking correspondence between the characteristics of mature religiosity, derived from the various sources of development of the ego-ideal and the superego, and reflecting a...