Dark Religion: The Psychology of Denial and Discovery of Reality

What happens when the sacred becomes ideology? Jungian psychotherapists Vladislav Scholz and George Didier (USA) show how the archetype of the Self, displaced from its source, turns into inflation and obsession - "dark religion".

Drawing on clinical experience, analytical concepts and careful listening to symbols, the authors outline a way of speaking about religious trauma, guilt, shame and loss of self - without reducing the spiritual to the psyche and without replacing the psyche with dogma.

The book offers guidelines for distinguishing: where is living faith and where is psychological substitution; how to recognize the manic "dedication" that hides fear; how to restore connection with the inner source of meaning.

For Jungian analysts, existential therapists, chaplains and all those who work with religiosity and trauma, and for readers in a crisis of faith - honest support, not ready-made answers. Published in the series "Psychology of Depths".