Internal Desecration: Traumatization and Representations of God

by Carrie Doehring PhD Associate Professor

Overwhelming life experiences, such as physical and sexual abuse during childhood, have the potential to obliterate internal representations of a loving God. In this book the author explores the inter-relationship between severity of childhood traumatization and mental representations of God through a comprehensive review of psychodynamic literature and quantitative research methodology. The research findings of a study with forty seven women demonstrate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819191205
• ISBN13: 9780819191205
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 186 Pages