Presently there are 38 catholic priests from other countries working in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, whose lives and work may be affected by stressful cultural adaptation problems. The present study attempted to investigate (1) What the sources of stress include in the miss…
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This dissertation attempts to integrate a psychoanalytic perspective on religious experience with a psychoanalytic understanding of “introjective-depressive personality” pathology within a subsection of the Roman Catholic clinical population. First, the author reviews relevant l…
Roman Catholic priests undergo years of formation prior to being ordained. Upon ordination, they are assigned to a particular ministry. Diocesan priests are typically assigned to a parish. As ordained ministers, priests exercise both service and leadership. This study therefore …
This project, utilizing small groups that draw on group theory (Marianne Schneider Corey & Gerald Corey) and attachment theory (John Bowlby), will begin to close the gap between the Orthodox model of the Home Church and the experience of many Orthodox-Catholic marriages, often l…
This dissertation discusses the nineteenth-century Oxford Movement in the Church of England and its three leaders, John Henry Newman, John Keble, and Edward Bouverie Pusey as to why Newman became Catholic and why Keble and Pusey remained Anglican. The methodology reviewed their …
What is it like to experience religious doubt across the lifespan while simultaneously remaining committed to the Roman Catholic faith tradition? Much of the psychological literature discusses religious doubt through a valence of positive or negative, healthy or unhealthy, good …
From the writer’s research and experience, hospitalized patients regularly seek God for support and desire access to spiritual, religious, and emotional care to cope. In the awareness of the importance of emotional and spiritual well-being in connection to healthcare, many medic…