Ongenae S
Psychiatre des Hôpitaux, Centre de Psychologie Clinique Infantile, C.H.S. Esquirol, Limoges.
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1991 Aug-Sep;149(7):563-71.
Prayer, considered under its theological aspect as a love relation between the orant and God becomes, under a psychopathological point of view, deviated as it is from its original aim, a space of potential cure for narcissistic wounds. In this sense, prayer is a kind of intermediary world between normality and madness, which according to the religious ideas of the individual and the importance of his mental disorders, tends towards one or the other of these extremes, and makes his defences operative. It happens therefore that Faith, as materialized in prayer, can be a mean to save oneself of mental morbidity. Prayer is an intricate phenomenon which originates in the multiple dimensions of the human being, where religion, psychology, morals, pathology and metaphysics confront each other.
从神学角度看，祈祷被视为祈祷者与上帝之间的一种爱的关系，而从精神病理学角度看，它偏离了其原本目标，成为了一个潜在治愈自恋创伤的空间。从这个意义上说，祈祷是正常与疯狂之间的一种中介世界，根据个人的宗教观念及其精神障碍的严重程度，它倾向于这两个极端中的一个，并使他的防御机制发挥作用。因此，在祈祷中体现的信仰可能成为拯救自己免于精神疾病的一种方式。祈祷是一种复杂的现象，它源自人类的多个维度，在这些维度中，宗教、心理学、道德、病理学和形而上学相互碰撞。
