The Seba library treats Mediator in 9 passages, across 7 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Frank S. Thielman, J William Worden, ABPP).
the anima appears in her proper positive role—that is, as a mediator between the ego and the Self. The four-times-four configuration
Jung identifies the anima’s defining psychological function as the mediation between conscious ego and the transpersonal Self, embodied in the archetypal image of the nun-figure in the dream.
, Man and His Symbols, 1964thesis
the gracious, saving work of God on behalf of his human creation through the fully human mediator between God and human beings, Christ Jesus.
Thielman articulates the Pauline-christological definition of mediator: Christ’s full humanity qualifies him uniquely to stand between God and fallen creation in a work of redemption.
, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, 2005thesis
MEDIATOR 4: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS In order to understand how someone is going to grieve, you need to know if he or she has had previous losses and how these were grieved.
Worden employs ‘mediator’ as a clinical taxonomy denoting variables—here prior loss history—that modulate the form and intensity of mourning, situating the term squarely within grief theory.
, Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy A Handbook for the, 2018thesis
Alchemy functions as an intermediary between the religious context of the imagery and its modern psychological context.
Edinger casts alchemy itself in the mediator role, arguing that it transmitted sacred religious images into the psychological register that Jung could then interpret analytically.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
3. The Mourning Process: Mediators of Mourning
Worden’s chapter heading signals the systematic treatment of mediators as a distinct conceptual category within the clinical theory of mourning.
, Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy A Handbook for the, 2018supporting
awe as the mediator, and daily life satisfaction was the dependent variable. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found a significant indirect effect of nature experience on daily life satisfaction through awe
Anderson deploys ‘mediator’ in its statistical sense, demonstrating empirically that awe transmits the effect of nature exposure onto life satisfaction.
, Awe in Nature Heals: Evidence From Military Veterans, At-Risk Youth, and College Students, 2018supporting
Mediation diagram for the impact of time (predictor) on smoking behavior using expected reward values as a mediator.
Taylor et al. use the statistical mediator construct to argue that shifts in expected reward value mechanistically explain mindfulness-driven reductions in smoking.
, App-Based Mindfulness Training Predicts Reductions in Smoking Behavior by Engaging Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms: A Preliminary Naturalistic Single-Arm Study, 2022supporting
the TPS may serve as a useful measure in future longer-term longitudinal investigations to help elucidate the extent to which the Twelve Promises emerge for 12-step members over time, as an independent benefit of participation and/or as a mediator of SUD remission and recovery.
Kelly proposes that the Twelve Promises Scale functions as a mediator linking 12-step participation to substance use disorder remission, illustrating the term’s reach into recovery-science methodology.
, The Twelve Promises of Alcoholics Anonymous: Psychometric measure validation and mediational testing as a 12-step specific mechanism of behavior change, 2013supporting
it formulates the figure of our Lord in a series of paradoxes, as God and man, sacrificer and sacrificed.
Jung’s commentary on the Acts of John implicitly frames Christ’s paradoxical dual nature as the theological ground for his mediating function, though the term itself is not used.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958aside