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Transformational Analysis and Religious Experience

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The therapeutic process, which taps into the individual’s most vulnerable inner experience, can always reach a radical reversal of one’s perception of religion and God, which may be askew due to deep trauma. This transformation caused by the therapeutic relationship can reciprocally help to resolve one’s deep and complicated issues, while at the same time radically altering their relationship to religion. This is especially apparent among those who were cruelly and traumatically abused in their earliest stages of development.

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This study was funded by Slovenian Research Agency (Project No. J5-6825).

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  1. Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Christian Gostečnik, Tanja Repič Slavič, Tanja Pate & Robert Cvetek

  2. Franciscan Family Institute, Prešernov trg 4, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Christian Gostečnik, Tanja Repič Slavič, Tanja Pate & Robert Cvetek

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Gostečnik, C., Slavič, T.R., Pate, T. et al. Transformational Analysis and Religious Experience. J Relig Health 56, 1812–1825 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0386-0

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