Dreaming, religion, and health

SummaryDreaming has been presented as a universal human phenomenon. Ancient as contrasted with modern peoples have viewed the dream as a mysterious, powerful, yet comprehensible experience within the context of their theological world view. After hypothesizing that our contemporary state of alienati...

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Main Author: Getsinger, Stephen H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [1978]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 1978, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 199-209
Further subjects:B Human Phenomenon
B Comprehensive View
B Contemporary State
B Psychological Approach
B World View
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:SummaryDreaming has been presented as a universal human phenomenon. Ancient as contrasted with modern peoples have viewed the dream as a mysterious, powerful, yet comprehensible experience within the context of their theological world view. After hypothesizing that our contemporary state of alienation and fragmentation is related to our tendency to dichotomize experience into real and unreal, I reviewed psychoanalytic and depth psychological approaches to dreaming, concluding that an ego-analytic-depth approach is most compatible with theological perspectives. Following a review of empirical dream research supporting the hypothesis that dream process is related to health, I presented a structural model linking six ego and theologically analogous constructs: integration-creation, synthesis-dependence, selection-choice, cognitionincarnation, regulation-redemption, and anticipation-eschatology. Finally, I presented a patient's dream, suggesting how the model might be applied for a more comprehensive view of the dreaming process.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF01597272