Psychosis or Mystical Religious Experience? A New Paradigm Grounded in Psychology and Reformed Theology /

• Main Author: DeHoff, Susan L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Psychology and religion.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Health psychology.; Religion and Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Health Psychology.

This book presents a new paradigm for distinguishing psychotic and mystical religious experiences. In order to explore how Presbyterian pastors differentiate such events, Susan L. DeHoff draws from Reformed theology, psychological theory, and robust qualitative research. Following a conversation amo...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Mystical Religious Experience and Psychosis: Contours of the Problem
• 2.Reformed Theology: Historical Perspectives on Mystical Experience
• 3. Psychoanalytic Views of Mystical Religious Experience
• 4. Post-Freudian Psychological Theories
• 5. Research: Presbyterian Church (USA) Views on MRE
• 6. Theology and Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Discussion
• 7. Proposing A New Paradigm
• 8. Conclusion.