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The purpose of this article is to examine regressive processes that take place in religious experience, and, by comparing its stages to similar stages in creativity, demonstrate how the experience can be reparative rather than pathological.
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He has written numerous articles in the area of psychology and religion, and his bookThe Recovery of Self has been recently published by Paulist Press.
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Fauteux, K. Regression and reparation in religious experience and creativity. Pastoral Psychol 43, 163–175 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02253784
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