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JANETTE GRAETZ SIMMONDS
ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic clinicians interested in spiritual matters were interviewed concerning
their concepts of God. For most of the 25 participants in this research, in which two
methods of qualitative analysis were employed, the notion of God was problematic
but was not rejected per se. Participants reported personal concepts of a force or energy
which is immanent, and for most, also transcendent, having evolutionary and moral
scope, to do with awareness of the cosmos and levels of consciousness, and beyond
the usual limitations of understanding. These non-anthropomorphic, non-image
bound concepts were also shared by those who had a commitment to religious organizations.