Exploring Therapy, Spirituality and Healing
Exploring Therapy, Spirituality and Healing

Author: William N. West

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-12-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0230365256

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What place does spiritual need and healing have in the counselling room? Denying the spiritual dimension of personal distress can be potentially hurtful to clients, but the issue of spirituality is also fraught with professional and ethical issues for therapists. This book draws on original research to move the debate about spiritual need forwards in relation to therapeutic practice, supervision, and training. An international team of contributors offer a diverse range of perspectives to critically explore a wide spectrum of spiritual issues, including prayer, pastoral care and traditional healing. Edited by a leading figure in the field, this book: - Illuminates experiences of both clients and practitioners through detailed case vignettes - Draws on cutting-edge research in this growing field - Invites readers to address their own therapeutic practice with hands-on discussion points This measured and thoughtful approach provides a fascinating insight to an often complex and controversial topic. As such, the book is essential reading for trainees and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy.

Exploring Therapy, Spirituality and Healing
Exploring Therapy, Spirituality and Healing

Author: William N. West

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-12-13

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1350305618

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What place does spiritual need and healing have in the counselling room? Denying the spiritual dimension of personal distress can be potentially hurtful to clients, but the issue of spirituality is also fraught with professional and ethical issues for therapists. This book draws on original research to move the debate about spiritual need forwards in relation to therapeutic practice, supervision, and training. An international team of contributors offer a diverse range of perspectives to critically explore a wide spectrum of spiritual issues, including prayer, pastoral care and traditional healing. Edited by a leading figure in the field, this book: - Illuminates experiences of both clients and practitioners through detailed case vignettes - Draws on cutting-edge research in this growing field - Invites readers to address their own therapeutic practice with hands-on discussion points This measured and thoughtful approach provides a fascinating insight to an often complex and controversial topic. As such, the book is essential reading for trainees and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy.

Spirituality and Art Therapy
Spirituality and Art Therapy

Author: Mimi Farrelly-Hansen

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1846422191

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Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach. The contributors are leading art therapists who write from diverse perspectives, including Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and shamanic. They explain how their own spiritual and creative influences interact, finding expression in the use of art as a healing agent with specific populations, such as bereaved children, emotionally disturbed adolescents, and the homeless. The relationships between spirituality and visual art, art therapy and transpersonal psychology are examined. Story and image are interwoven in the spiritual journeys of therapists and clients, and suggested creative exercises make this an accessible, practical resource for those who desire to understand and execute an holistic method of therapy. Arguing that art therapists can mediate between the sacred and the mundane, this pioneering book is an affirmation of the transformative power of art therapy.

Soul Healing
Soul Healing

Author: Dorothy S. Becvar

Publisher:

Published: 1997-04-04

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Based on the premise that humans choose experiences to learn and thus grow, Dorothy Bevcar's book is aimed at therapists of all persuasions and is designed to encourage a spiritual orientation in their client's lives.

Psychedelic Healing
Psychedelic Healing

Author: Neal M. Goldsmith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-12-21

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1594778558

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Psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts for emotional and spiritual transformation • Explores the latest medical research on the healing powers of entheogens • Reveals the crucial role of tribal and shamanic wisdom in psychedelic medicine • Provides guidelines for working with psychedelics, including the author’s personal healing and recommendations for creating change on the spiritual and societal levels Banned after promising research in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, the use of psychedelics as therapeutic catalysts is now being rediscovered at prestigious medical schools, such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and UCLA. Through clinical trials to assess their use, entheogens have been found to ease anxiety in the dying, interrupt the hold of addictive drugs, cure post-traumatic stress disorder, and treat other deep-seated emotional disturbances. To date, results have been positive, and the idea of psychedelics as powerful psychiatric--and spiritual--medicines is now beginning to be accepted by the medical community. Exploring the latest cutting-edge research on psychedelics, along with their use in indigenous cultures throughout history for rites of passage and shamanic rituals, Neal Goldsmith reveals that the curative effect of entheogens comes not from a chemical effect on the body but rather by triggering a peak or spiritual experience. He provides guidelines for working with entheogens, groundbreaking analyses of the concept--and the process--of change in psychotherapy, and, ultimately, his own story of psychedelic healing. Examining the tribal roots of this knowledge, Goldsmith shows that by combining ancient wisdom and modern research, we can unlock the emotional, mental, and spiritual healing powers of these unique and powerful tools, providing an integral medicine for postmodern society.

Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

Author: James L. Griffith

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 146250583X

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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.

Sacred Therapy
Sacred Therapy

Author: Estelle Frankel

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2005-03-08

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0834825198

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In Sacred Therapy Estelle Frankel travels to the heart of Jewish mysticism to reveal how people of any faith can draw upon this rich body of teachings to gain wisdom, clarity, and a deeper sense of meaning in the midst of modern life. In an engaging and accessible style, Frankel brings together tales and teachings from the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbalah, and the Hasidic traditions as well as evocative case studies and stories from her own life to create an original, inspirational guide to emotional healing and spiritual growth.

Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare

Author: Mark Cobb

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0191502189

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The relationship between spirituality and healthcare is historical, intellectual and practical, and it has now emerged as a significant field in health research, healthcare policy and clinical practice and training. Understanding health and wellbeing requires addressing spiritual and existential issues, and healthcare is therefore challenged to respond to the ways spirituality is experienced and expressed in illness, suffering, healing and loss. If healthcare has compassionate regard for the humanity of those it serves, it is faced with questions about how it understands and interprets spirituality, what resources it should make available and how these are organised, and the ways in which spirituality shapes and informs the purpose and practice of healthcare? These questions are the basis for this resource, which presents a coherent field of enquiry, discussion and debate that is interdisciplinary, international and vibrant. There is a growing corpus of articles in medical and healthcare journals on spirituality in addition to a wide range of literature, but there has been no attempt so far to publish a standard text on this subject. Spirituality in Healthcare is an authoritative reference on the subject providing unequalled coverage, critical depth and an integrated source of key topics. Divided into six sections including practice, research, policy and training, the project brings together international contributions from scholars in the field to provide a unique and stimulating resource.

Spiritual Regression for Peace & Healing
Spiritual Regression for Peace & Healing

Author: Ursula Demarmels

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0738751677

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Explore the Love, Light, and Joy of Spiritual Regression The benefits of past-life regression are many: recognizing the divine plan for your life, losing the fear of death, and meeting your soul guides. In Spiritual Regression for Peace & Healing, discover how to use regression to better understand and resolve fears, health issues, and karmic relationships and discover your special skills and talents in this life. Join author Ursula Demarmels as she shares dozens of fascinating case studies from more than 4,000 past-life regression sessions that she has conducted in her professional practice. Intimate and inspiring, these stories include heartwarming tales of people being reunited with their loved ones, friends, and even animal companions in spirit.