Williams S Taylor
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 920 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA,
J Relig Health. 2014 Feb;53(1):290-7. doi: 10.1007/s10943-013-9774-2.
In 2007, the letters of The Blessed Mother Teresa to her confessors were published for the public in a book entitled Come Be My Light. What surprised many readers was that Mother Teresa felt very distant from God and described feeling great "darkness" for many years. This paper draws parallels between the writings of Mother Teresa and those of writers' illness narratives describing the psychiatric condition of Depression. The author provides this textual analysis to explore Mother Teresa's experience within a psychiatric paradigm (Major Depressive Disorder), in comparison with and contrast to the spiritual paradigm of a "Dark Night of the Soul."
2007年，《德肋撒嬷嬷写给她的忏悔神父的信件》在一本名为《来做我的光》的书中向公众出版。令许多读者惊讶的是，德肋撒嬷嬷感觉与上帝非常疏远，并描述多年来一直感到巨大的“黑暗”。本文将德肋撒嬷嬷的作品与描述抑郁症精神状况的作家疾病叙事作品进行了比较。作者提供这种文本分析，以在精神疾病范式（重度抑郁症）中探讨德肋撒嬷嬷的经历，并与“灵魂暗夜”的精神范式进行比较和对照。
