Following Christ Together : Sermons and Addresses on Communion, Service and Hope

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Vulnerabilidad, dignidad y justicia: valores éticos fundamentales en un mundo globalizado

Existe hoy un interés fuerte y renovado en cuestiones éticas. Los desafíos, dilemas, deficiencias e injusticias del mundo globalizado nos rodean por todas partes. El programa ¿Etica y Desarrollo¿ del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo es una muestra de tal interés, al mismo tiempo que lo promueva y profundiza. Entiendo que la respuesta a este programa ha sido impresionante, lo cual muestra la necesidad y relevancia de poner el tema ético en la agenda ligada a las grandes transformaciones latinoamericanas y globales

Reflections on Olav's Therapy: The Roles of Religious Experience, Self Psychology, and Mentalization

Commentaries on the case study of Olav (Stalsett, Engedal & Austad, 2010) by Richards (2010), Jones (2010), and Malitzky (2010) identify and discuss a number of key issues associated with the case study, including the study's scientific value, the importance of religious experience in relation to psychopathology and psychotherapy, and the roles of self-psychology, attachment, and mentalization in the therapy change process. In our response to the commentaries, we address these issues. We conclude that all of the perspectives reviewed help to explain the factors that contributed to Olav's success in our VITA treatment program. This multi-perspectival approach was supported by one of the core principles of VITA: the creation of a "culture of inquiry," which specifically helped Olav to experience and regulate his intense negative affects and to understand and integrate his dialectically opposed visions of God and spirituality from a variety of points of view and within a diversity of therapeutic activities

The Persecuting God and the Crucified Self: The Case of Olav and the Transformation of His Pathological Self-Image

This case study describes the treatment of "Olav," a divorced lawyer in his mid-30's, who, at the time of treatment, had been continuously hospitalized in closed, short-term psychiatric wards for more than seven years with severe treatment-resistant depression, transient psychotic episodes, self-destructive behavior, and suicide attempts. He was about to be admitted to a long-term ward for chronic schizophrenics. A great deal of his psychopathology revolved around his feeling tortured from condemning inner voices of what he called "the Committee" that he believed were the sacred voices of God. The present case study describes Olav's treatment in our institution's "VITA" unit, a 12-week, group-based, residential day-treatment program that explicitly focuses on existential and religious issues. The VITA program includes diary-writing, affect consciousness, and regular group sessions consisting of such activities as mindfulness training; art therapy focusing on drawing or painting internal representations of self, father, mother and God; multiple group experiences; and reflection on existential issues. A standard assessment battery documents Olav's dramatic improvement over the course of treatment and at one-year follow-up

Ana-Maria Rizzuto and the Psychoanalysis of Religion: The Road to the Living God

Ana-María Rizzuto’s groundbreaking explorations of the formation of God representations in early childhood and their elaboration throughout the life cycle have made their mark, enriching the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, as well as scholarship within the psychoanalytic study of religion. Accompanied by illuminating commentaries by Rizzuto, the authors of this edited collections essays in this volume underscore Rizzuto’s most important contribution to clinical practice: rather than assert that psychoanalysis is incompatible with religious beliefs and practices or with spiritual concerns that patients may bring to a therapeutic context, Rizzuto makes room for the coexistence of psychoanalysis and religion in the therapeutic setting. Demonstrating how Rizzuto’s work has enhanced connections within and among psychoanalytic theories of religion, established pathways for new developments in psychotherapy, and facilitated interdisciplinary conversations, this volume showcases the compelling power of Rizzuto’s work and its ongoing influence. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1427/thumbnail.jp