ABSTRACT

In the previous pages I have suggested that in some cases of depth psychotherapy, religious experience may take priority over psychological experience, and I have tried to differentiate between the two. When religious experience predominates, religious language may be more appropriate than psychological language for describing what happens within the therapeutic situation. I have suggested that by implication the possibility for a fully human consciousness occurs when religious experience is engaged, and that the religious aspect of that experience may bring physiological change along with it. This is to say that, at times, the psychological “wholeness,” of which fully human consciousness gives an indication, may include physiological/ religious experience and not depend upon psychological experience alone.