Metanoia Vs Paranoia – New Existential Position-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Metanoia Vs Paranoia – New Existential Position

Published:2023-04-01 Issue:1 Volume:9 Page:25-35
ISSN:2411-4138
Container-title:European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
language:en
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Author:

Ilievski Naum¹,Ilievska Angelina²

Affiliation:

1. 1 Faculty of Psychology , International Slavic University “Gavrilo R. Derzhavin”, Sveti Nikole , R. North Macedonia

2. 2 Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist, Private Practice , Skopje , R. North Macedonia

Abstract

Abstract Comparative analysis of metanoia not only as a psychological but a broader spiritual concept versus the paranoid existential position with the accent on the projection as a primitive defence mechanism. These phenomena were studied from phenomenological, psychodynamic, and theological points of view. The theory of personality of Christian psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis concepts are applied. The ego as a psychological apparatus limits human behaviour and actions by constant activation of defence mechanisms that often lead to psychopathology. In Christian psychotherapy metanoia as the desired level is a state of deep spiritual transformation opposite of the distorted psychological conditions.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/ejis-2023-0003

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