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When God Talks Back

Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God

Career
Imagining God

Tanya Luhrmann Ph.D. on December 16, 2012

When God is imagined as personally vivid and as unconditionally loving, God becomes a "self-object."

When God is imagined as personally vivid and as unconditionally loving, God becomes a "self-object."

Psychosis
Air Dense With Words

Tanya Luhrmann Ph.D. on November 14, 2012

No one knows why people hear voices, psychotic or otherwise, but at least part of the story is that those who do read patterns into ambiguity—one reason that people hear voices in cars and find God on the bus.

No one knows why people hear voices, psychotic or otherwise, but at least part of the story is that those who do read patterns into ambiguity—one reason that people hear voices in cars and find God on the bus.

Psychosis
Thought as Substance

Tanya Luhrmann Ph.D. on June 12, 2012

Understanding spiritual practice should lead us to think differently about how we treat people who hear distressing voices.

Understanding spiritual practice should lead us to think differently about how we treat people who hear distressing voices.