When God Hides: Therapy for Life's Impasses

Abstract

Addresses the challenge presented to pastors and pastoral psychotherapists by cases of chronic stuckness or inertia. Uses a Jungian model of conscious-unconscious reciprocity, describing inertia in terms of energy imbalance and a loss of consciousness, and identifies the conscious attitude toward the unconscious as a key factor in the difficulty. Illustrates this with a brief case study. Finds religious parallels in the attitude of faith and notes the unique resources of divine grace to shift inertia.