Centre for Research and Innovation in Christian Mental Health Care, Eleos/De Hoop, Amersfoort.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 Oct 1;209(10):710-719. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001363.
This exploratory study shows that God representation types are associated with levels of personality organization. Among two Dutch samples of psychiatric patients (n = 136) and nonpatients (n = 161), we found associations between the psychotic, borderline, and neurotic personality organizations, and passive-unemotional, negative-authoritarian, and positive-authoritative God representation types, respectively. Both patients and nonpatients reported positive God representations, but only nonpatients and higher-level functioning patients reported an integrated God-object relation. For persons with personality pathology, the relationship with God can be a struggle and might have a defensive and/or compensating function. In addition to personality organization, Christian religious orthodox culture is a statistical predictor of God representations, but not of anger toward God. We offer suggestions for how psychotherapeutic work with God representations might differ for patients with different levels of personality organization.
本探索性研究表明，上帝表象类型与人格组织水平相关。在两个荷兰精神科患者样本（n=136）和非患者样本（n=161）中，我们发现精神病态、边缘型和神经质人格组织分别与被动-非情感型、消极-专制型和积极-权威型上帝表象类型相关。患者和非患者都报告了积极的上帝表象，但只有非患者和功能较高的患者报告了整合的上帝客体关系。对于有人格病理的人来说，与上帝的关系可能是一种挣扎，可能具有防御和/或补偿功能。除了人格组织，基督教正统宗教文化是上帝表象的统计预测因素，但不是对上帝的愤怒。我们提出了一些建议，即对于不同人格组织水平的患者，如何进行不同的上帝表象的心理治疗工作。
