Histrionical Blurriness. A God Image Without Features

Agnieszka Małgorzata Krzysztof - Świderska

doi:10.35765/hw.2022.2159.12

Agnieszka Małgorzata Krzysztof - Świderska Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0819-0350

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/hw.2022.2159.12

Keywords: God Image, psychoanalysis, histrionical personality, CAQDAS, personality

Abstract

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Exploring the specificity of God Image in histrionic personality organization.

THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main research question is: God Image in histrionic subtype of Personality Organization is similar or different from the God Image in Borderline Personality Organization? Methodological strategy of Qualitative Secondary Analysis with the use of CAQDAS of material gathered in a project concerning God Image in Borderline personality organization (Krzysztof-Świderska, 2017) was performed.

THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The influence of the preoedipal roots of histrionic personality organization on the development of the specific God Image was argued.

RESEARCH RESULTS: Outcomes shed light on certain characteristics of the histrionic God image: idealization and blurriness. The main conclusion is that characteristics of God Image in histrionical patients correspond with Bollas’s theoretical approach.

CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: From a methodological point of view in future research, it is recommended to standardize groups in terms of the phase of therapy. It is also indicated that acting out experienced problems in a religious space could be potentially dangerous to those patients.

Author Biography

Agnieszka Małgorzata Krzysztof - Świderska, Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie

Dr n. społ. Agnieszka Krzysztof-Świderska – Doktor nauk społecznych w dziedzinie psychologii, adiunkt w Katedrze Psychologii Religii i Duchowości w Akademii Ignatianum w Krakowie. Praktykuje jako terapeuta psychodynamiczny.

W latach 2005-2009 pracowała w Szpitalu Specjalistycznym im. Dr Józefa Babińskiego. W ramach studiów doktoranckich zrealizowała pod opieką Profesor Haliny Grzymały-Moszczyńskoiej, projekt naukowy dotyczący przeżywania osobistej religijności przez osoby z głębokimi zaburzeniami osobowości. Prowadziła również szeroko zakrojoną działalność szkoleniową, w ramach cykli szkoleniowych „Religijność i duchowość w psychoterapii i pomocy psychologicznej” czy "Diagnoza i rozumienie problemów klientów pomocy społecznej". Od 2013 roku realizuje dwa projekty badawcze: projekt dotyczący postaw religijnych artystów, studentów i nauczycieli sztuki, dotowany przez fundację Mateusza Grabowskiego działającą w Wielkiej Brytanii, oraz projekt dotyczący roli duchowości jako dojrzałego mechanizmu obronnego w osobowości.

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