Internal Desecration Traumatization and

Overwhelming life experiences, such as physical and sexual abuse during childhood, have the potential to obliterate internal representations of a loving God. In this book the author explores the inter-relationship between severity of childhood traumatization and mental representations of God through a comprehensive review of psychodynamic literature and quantitative research methodology. The research findings of a study with forty seven women demonstrate the complexity of this subject and illustrate how the empirical truth of quantitative findings may or may not resonate with the metaphorical truth of psychodynamic models of traumatization. The author discusses the significance of these findings for clinicians and faith communities.

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
The Inter-Relationship Between Traumatization and God Representations	p. 1
Review of the Literature	p. 13
Psychodynamic Theories of Traumatization	p. 13
Empirical Measures of Psychic Traumatization	p. 24
The Nature of Representations	p. 26
Empirical Studies on Representations	p. 27
Studies on Correlations between Traumatization and God Representations	p. 45
Methodology	p. 53
Results	p. 59
Descriptive Analyses of Demographic and Religious Variables	p. 59
Descriptive Analyses of Severity of Traumatization	p. 59
Correlational Analyses of Traumatization and God Representations	p. 65
Intercorrelations among God Representations	p. 67
Correlations with Social Desirability	p. 75
Multiple Regressions: Traumatization and God Representations	p. 76
Analyses of Variance: Traumatization and God Representations	p. 80
Additional Analyses	p. 89
Discussion	p. 109
Conclusions	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 141
Author Index	p. 157
Subject Index	p. 161
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