ABSTRACT
New and surprising perspectives on "mistrust" will also be drawn from the ancient biblical text of the "story of the creation of man" as well as from the modern couple and family psychoanalytic theory. This chapter presents a clinical vignette to integrate the theoretical dimensions of mistrust with the flesh and blood, live relationship of a couple. Trust is based on the development of a sufficient confidence in the goodness of mother during early childhood. The ability to trust comes out of the building up of confidence based on experience, at the time of maximal dependence, before separation and independence. The distrust in God is an essential condition for enabling the process of separation from the Creator and evolving the ability to create a world of one's own. In the biblical tale, the lack of trust in God is presented through the conflict between obeying God's instructions and satisfying the desire for the fine qualities of the "tree of knowledge".
