ABSTRACT
The focus of the following reflections is a remarkable series of dreams that led to a breakthrough of numinous1 material in which the religious experience of a modern woman in psychotherapy shattered her previous sense of identity, and left her radically transformed, and-in a fundamental way-healed. During this process my patient Mairi2 taught me that in some cases of depth psychotherapy, religious experience may take priority over psychological experience, and that when this happens, religious language may be more appropriate than psychological language for describing what happens within the therapeutic situation.
