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Jun 11, 2013 · Faith, they argue, is psychologically normal or helpful and the question of truth can be bracketed. (For Freud nothing untrue could be normal or helpful). Carl Jung, for example, speaks very positively of faith, but according to him God is a psychological construct, reflecting an image of our Self.
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Jan 2, 2018 · 2 The biggest risk to patients in using faith-informed therapies arises from: a lack of efficacy. b a negative religious coping style. c conflict between therapist and patient. d changing the patient's faith. e impact on quality of life. 3 The best reason for using faith-informed therapies is: a reliable evidence of efficacy. b patient ...
- David M. Foreman
- 2017
Jan 1, 2014 · What these definitions of mature faith and postformal reasoning have in common is the ability to use cognitive faculties to balance perspectives from multiple vantage points and to successfully respond to paradoxes. By this definition, faith maturity is associated with open-mindedness and tolerance for ambiguity.
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Feb 27, 2011 · Faith must have a cognitive, measurable biological effect on one. Faith can make someone turn their lives around if caught up in the wrong lifestyle. It can also be used to drive an individual to strap bombs on their person and harm people unrelated to their issues. Faith and fear, both are very powerful.
Apr 14, 2014 · Faith is not mere belief in the claim that God exists. Just believing a statement has little to do with one's life, in many respects. The New Testament takes faith to include belief, but it goes ...
This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning. It takes a perspective of religious diversity that incorporates international and cross-cultural work. The empirical literature on the role of faith and cognition, faith and emotion, and faith and behavior is addressed including ...
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For example, they might look at differences in religious affiliations and voting behaviors, or levels of spirituality and responses to different psychological treatments. Psychologists always try to ground their work in a theoretical approach; in the case of spirituality, one helpful approach is called the meaning systems approach (Paloutzian & Park, 2021).