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This study aims to examine whether the church community can serve as a healthy selfobject and provide pastoral counseling that facilitates the restoration of the image of God for believers who did not sufficiently receive the three healthy selfobject experiences identified in Heinz Kohut’s (1913–1981) Self Psychology as essential for the development of healthy narcissism. In his 1966 paper, Kohut identified two principal poles of narcissism: the grandiose self and the idealized parental imago. According to Kohut, the development of narcissism is profoundly influenced by the quality of selfobject experiences children receive from their parents during early childhood. He argued that children who experience trauma and fail to receive empathic parenting develop a fragmented self, resulting in an arrested development of healthy narcissism. Even when children encounter various developmental frustrations, if they experience optimal frustration within an empathic relationship with their parents, they are able to develop a cohesive self through the process of transmuting internalization, thereby fostering healthy narcissism. Such healthy narcissism is an essential prerequisite for personality maturation and serves as a fundamental developmental task, leading to the formation of the nuclear self and ultimately the authentic self. This study argues that even faithful members of the church community may remain in a state of fragmented self if psychological trauma has prevented the healthy development of narcissism, consequently experiencing significant emotional crises. From this perspective, the researcher contends that empathic selfobject experiences, as described in Kohut’s Self Psychology, provide the "psychological oxygen" necessary to heal distorted narcissism resulting from a fragmented self and to restore the image of God, which constitutes the foundation of the authentic self. This perspective is also supported by Kohut’s own observations and practical application of Self Psychology while serving as a lay minister within his church community. Accordingly, this study provides a theoretical examination of Kohut’s Self Psychology and proposes practical pastoral counseling strategies that can be implemented within the church community. These strategies are intended to help believers restore healthy narcissism, recover the image of God, and grow into spiritually and psychologically mature members of the body of Christ.

목차

I. Introduction
II. The Formation and Development of the Self and Selfobjects
1. The Concept of the Self in Self Psychology
2. The Formation and Development of Selfobjects
III. Understanding the Image of God
1. A Theological Understanding of the Image of God
2. Understanding the Image of God from the Perspective of Self Psychology
IV. Three Stages of Self Psychology : Based Pastoral Counseling in the Church
1. Stage One: Self Psychology and Pastoral-Counseling Empathy
2. Stage Two: Understanding and Explaining
3. Stage Three: A Pastoral Counseling Interpretation Grounded in Self Psychology within the Church
V. Conclusion
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저자

• Park, Eun-Jung [ Westminster Graduate School of Theology ]

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  신학과 실천 [Theology and Praxis]

• 간기

  연5회

• pISSN

  1229-7917

• 수록기간

  1997~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 230 DDC 230