عنوان

Transformative Existential Experiences and the Mental Growth Stages Illustrated by Case Reports

شماره

LA109065

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Transformative Existential Experiences and the Mental Growth Stages Illustrated by Case Reports

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Berit Borgen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The article describes part of an on-going research on the processes of mental liberation and growth. The original research material is based on qualitative research methods and ethnographic in-depth interviews with drug-addicted persons undergoing treatment. The material is further analysed within a framework presented in Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory: mental growth through positive disintegration. This framework was found to be useful in the analysis of the participants' mental growth processes particularly due to the integration of human's transcending ability. Participants contribute in describing how transformative existential experiences may promote the process of mental growth. Importance of activating the mental transcending ability is shown to be central in the recovery process. One profound transformative existential experience is described as the possibility to be who you are, an identity experience which elicited the genuine self. The study sheds light on human mental development when the therapy included activation of the spiritual/religious dimension. The article describes part of an on-going research on the processes of mental liberation and growth. The original research material is based on qualitative research methods and ethnographic in-depth interviews with drug-addicted persons undergoing treatment. The material is further analysed within a framework presented in Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory: mental growth through positive disintegration. This framework was found to be useful in the analysis of the participants' mental growth processes particularly due to the integration of human's transcending ability. Participants contribute in describing how transformative existential experiences may promote the process of mental growth. Importance of activating the mental transcending ability is shown to be central in the recovery process. One profound transformative existential experience is described as the possibility to be who you are, an identity experience which elicited the genuine self. The study sheds light on human mental development when the therapy included activation of the spiritual/religious dimension.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

89-128

عنوان

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

شماره جلد

38/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-6121

اصطلاح موضوعی

creating meaning

اصطلاح موضوعی

drug addiction treatment

اصطلاح موضوعی

liberating turning points

اصطلاح موضوعی

mental growth

اصطلاح موضوعی

recovery

اصطلاح موضوعی

transformative existential experiences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Berit Borgen

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15736121-12341319

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y