Attachment, Trauma, and Intimacy with God

摘要: Attachment theory provides a robust framework for understanding spiritual development and perceptions of God. An integration research from attachment theory, affective neuroscience, emotional information processing, trauma, is clarifying the competing findings involving compensation correspondence in development. Empirical evidence suggests distinction between explicit theological beliefs implicit perception God as an figure may explain discrepancy compensatory practices correspondence, how one interacts with God, copes negative life events. Studies post-traumatic stress disorder suggest specific association extreme trauma alterations processing. Trauma repudiates basic human needs safety, protection, belonging, shattering assumptions about self, others, Scientific evdience accumulating suggesting cognitive interventions interpersonal experiences, occuring explicitly implicitly, can cause neurobiological changes. Thus, whether or not religious issues are addressed, therapeutic process has potential to improve intimacy by altering neural networks associated authority figures, creating new ways experiencing interacting