RT Article
T1 How a Buddhist Helped a Christian Love God
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 45
IS 4
SP 517
OP 531
A1 O'Sullivan, Trish
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1668862743
AB A description of how a Buddhist psychotherapist used a threefold approach to the treatment of a fundamentalist Christian diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and presenting with obsessive religious thoughts and fears. One element is the frame of the more traditional psychotherapeutic supportive approach; another element is the Zen Buddhist spiritual perspective with the associated "cognitive set" of oneness and respect for the common human struggle with "opposite thinking;" the third element is the Organic Mind Energy (OME) Psychotherapy techniques incorporated into the therapy. These techniques are especially useful with someone with "rigid" religious beliefs as they allow for a relaxation of the mind that in itself promotes openness and healing. There is no challenging of the client's beliefs and no attempt to change them.
K1 anxiety; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Zen Buddhism; Christian fundamentalism; OME psychotherapy
DO 10.1007/s10943-006-9053-6