Psychopathologie de la Religion et de la Spiritualité

Anton Boisen: a portrait.

J Relig Health . 2012;51 (2) :450-9

Résumé

This psychobiographical essay aims to shift Boisen scholarship from a focus on his disputed psychiatric diagnosis to a more inclusive investigation of the disparate aspects of his personality. I conclude that Boisen's central personality trait was a brand of loquacity that lacked substance--specifically the substance of his deepest secrets. This caused a kind of chronic frustration in his relations with others and, I argue, led to his chronic, psychotic state of being. Additionally, I argue that Boisen's psychosis and religious practice worked together to sustain his psychological regression.

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