Psychotherapy as an Operational Theology Process

摘要

This article discusses the concept that pathology derives from the absolutizing of an internalized object, usually from the family of origin, which unconsciously operates as a false absolute or idol in one's psyche. To survive in a world perceived as governed by such a false god, one develops symptoms and strategies that function as false saviours and idolatrous processes of one's distorted universe. The therapist's task is to help the client to identify and to consider changing the double idolatry of the false god and of the idolatrous strategies of salvation. Thus, such unconscious operational theology of the double idolatry is made conscious and the client becomes free to live in a universe governed by the loving creator who seeks to save the client by the unconditional and unambiguous divine love.