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Spiritual Relationships as an Analytical Instrument in Psychotherapy With Religious Patients
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 3, September 2006
- pp. 185-196
- 10.1353/ppp.2007.0022
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This article offers a relational approach for understanding and dealing with a patient's spiritual concerns. Insight into the relational structure of a particular patient's spirituality may help to (1) analyze in what way psychological and spiritual factors are interconnected and in what way the patient's "spiritual relationship" influences his mental health problems either positively or negatively, and (2) identify the latent opportunities for therapeutic and spiritual healing that are present within their spiritually minded patients' own religious frame of reference.