Encountering The Sacred In Psychotherapy

Author : James L. Griffith
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 146250583X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy written by James L. Griffith and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.

Author : Kenneth I. Pargament
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 146250261X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy written by Kenneth I. Pargament and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading researcher and practitioner, this volume provides an innovative framework for understanding the role of spirituality in people's lives and its relevance to the work done in psychotherapy. It offers fresh, practical ideas for creating a spiritual dialogue with clients, assessing spirituality as a part of their problems and solutions, and helping them draw on spiritual resources in times of stress. Written from a nonsectarian perspective, the book encompasses both traditional and nontraditional forms of spirituality. It is grounded in current findings from psychotherapy research and the psychology of religion, and includes a wealth of evocative case material.

Author : James L. Griffith
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606238906
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion That Heals, Religion That Harms written by James L. Griffith and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From James L. Griffith, well known for his work on harnessing the healing potential of religion and spirituality, this book helps clinicians to intervene effectively in situations where religion is causing harm. Vivid examples illustrate how religious beliefs and practices may propel suicide, violence, self-neglect, or undue suffering in the face of medical or emotional challenges. Griffith also unravels the links between psychiatric illness and distorted religious experience. He demonstrates empathic, respectful ways to interview patients who disdain contact with mental health professionals, yet whose religious lives put themselves or others at risk. The book incorporates cutting-edge research on the psychology of religion and social neuroscience.

Author : Lionel Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000031268
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psyche and the Sacred written by Lionel Corbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an approach to spirituality based on direct personal experience of the sacred. Using the language and insights of depth psychology, Corbett outlines the intimate relationship between spiritual experience and the psychology of the individual, unveiling the seamless continuity between the personal and transpersonal dimensions of the psyche. His discussion runs the gamut of spiritual concerns, from the problem of evil to the riddle of pain and suffering. Drawing upon his psychotherapeutic practice as well as on the experiences of characters from our religious heritage, Corbett explores the various portals through which the sacred presents itself to us: dreams, visions, nature, the body, relationships, psychopathology, and creative work. Referring extensively to Jung’s writings on religion, but also to contemporary psychoanalytic theory, Corbett gives form to the new spirituality that is emerging alongside the world’s great religious traditions. For those seeking alternative forms of spirituality beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition, this volume will be a useful guide on the journey.

Author : Allan M. Josephson
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 158562697X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice written by Allan M. Josephson and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshing new work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. Eleven distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical insight to assessment and healing to treatment. Unlike other works in this field, which focus primarily on spiritual experience, this clearly written volume focuses on the cognitive aspects of belief -- and how personal worldview affects the behavior of both patient and clinician. Informative case vignettes and discussions illustrate how assessment, formulation, and treatment principles can be incorporated within different worldviews, including practical clinical information on major faith traditions and on atheist and agnostic worldviews. The book's four main sections give concise yet comprehensive coverage of varying aspects of worldview: Conceptual Foundation -- The Introduction explains the significance of worldview and its context in the development of psychiatry; reviews misunderstandings about spirituality and worldview and how they can be resolved in contemporary practice; and discusses Freud's significant influence on psychiatry's approach to religion and spirituality. Clinical Foundations -- Three chapters review how clinicians can integrate spiritual and religious perspectives in the basic clinical processes of assessment (gathering a religious or spiritual history); diagnosis and case formulation (including religious and spiritual factors); and treatment (including a review of ethical issues). Patients and Their Traditions -- Six chapters discuss Catholic and Protestant Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, and secularists (atheists and agnostics), including a brief history, clinical implications of core beliefs, and variations of therapeutic encounters (both where patient and clinician share the same faith and where they do not) for each faith tradition. Worldview and Culture -- A concluding chapter reviews issues of a global culture where faiths once rarely encountered in North America are increasingly seen in clinical practice. This well-organized text sheds much-needed light on an area too often obscure to many clinicians, fostering a balanced integration of religion and spirituality in mental health training and practice. Bridging several disciplines in a novel way, this thought-provoking volume will find a diverse audience among mental health care students, educators, and professionals everywhere who seek to better integrate the religious and spiritual aspects of their patients' lives into assessment and treatment.

Author : Mary Lou Randour
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231070003
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Sacred Landscapes written by Mary Lou Randour and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Exploring sacred landscapes 2. Countertransference and transference aspects of religious material in psychotherapy: The isolation or integration of religious material 3. Ministry or therapy: The role of transference and countertransference in a religious therapist 4. The use of religiou simagery for psychological structuralization 5. Myth and symbol as expressions of the religious 6. Religious imagery in the clinical context: Access to compassion toward the self - illusion or truth 7. The transcendent moment and the analytic hour 8. Concluding clinical postscript: On developing a psychotheological perspective 9. Psychology and spirituality: Forgoing a new relationship.

Author : Marcella Bakur Weiner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765703668
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychotherapy and Religion written by Marcella Bakur Weiner and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of psychotherapy and religion. It demonstrates that the therapist's awareness and capacity to tolerate these alternative dimensions of experience foster a profound impact on both parties in the therapeutic process.

Author : Brian Thorne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118329244
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment written by Brian Thorne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment presents the key spiritually-focused writings of Brian Thorne, one of the most influential thinkers on the convergence of spirituality with counselling, along with new material reflecting his recent work in spiritual accompaniment. Reflects the increasing focus on spiritual issues as an essential part of therapy Represents the culmination of an intellectual quest, undertaken by the most senior figure in the field, to integrate spirituality with counselling and the person-centred approach Features chapters that span thirty years of work, along with new writings that bring readers up to date with the author's most recent work in spiritual accompaniment An invaluable guide for counsellors and therapists who acknowledge the importance of spirituality to their clients, but doubt their abilities to help in this area

Author : Carlton Cornett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684839024
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Psychotherapy written by Carlton Cornett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, thoughtful, and practical book, clinician Carlton Cornett explores the relevance of religion and spirituality to the clinical process and describes how to integrate issues of spirituality into everyday professional practice.

Author : Lionel Corbett
Publisher : Chiron Publications
ISBN 13 : 1888602511
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Cauldron written by Lionel Corbett and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when psychotherapy seems to be a purely secular pursuit with no connection to the sacred, The Sacred Cauldron makes the startling claim that, for both participants, psychotherapeutic work is actually a spiritual discipline in its own right. The psyche manifests the sacred and provides the transpersonal field within which the work of therapy is carried out. This book demonstrates some of the ways in which a spiritual sensibility can inform the technical aspects of psychotherapy. "The Sacred Cauldron is truly a book to be read by both therapists and non-therapists, for it offers a thoughtful, intelligent, sensitive passage through the spiritual quarrels and complexities of our time and addresses our common summons, which is to treat the life of the spirit with the respect, the gravity, and the centrality it deserves. This book is instructive to all, for Corbett not only marshals a wealth of scholarship and clinical experience, but also expresses challenging insights through a calm, reasonable, and commonsense appeal. After this book, the reader will be more thoughtful, more considered, more sophisticated, more appreciative of the importance of therapy as a vehicle for healing and for engaging the numinous." --James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and author of What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is currently on the core faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche and Psyche and the Sacred, as well as various professional articles. His main interest is in the religious function of the psyche and the ways in which this function expresses itself through the structures of personality.