The Spiritual Horizon Of Psychotherapy

Author : William S. Schmidt,Merle R. Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317987772

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The Spiritual Horizon of Psychotherapy by William S. Schmidt,Merle R. Jordan Pdf

This book explores the wise and conscious use of spiritual resources within counselling and psychotherapy. Written by veteran clinicians from different spiritual perspectives, and from various therapeutic schools of thought, this book provides a broad view of how the spiritual is present within therapeutic practice. The work of counselling and psychotherapy is increasingly seeking to ground its efforts within the richness of spiritual traditions. One of the surprising developments of the contemporary psychotherapeutic scene is a growing reliance on both hard, objective sciences - such as, for example, neurology or Genetics - whilst at the same time engaging very subjective, "soft" sciences - such as states of consciousness studies, psychology of religion, clinical or Pastoral Theology, and the over-arching tasks of meaning-making. Written by and for clinicians who are also teachers in the field, this collection offers a variety of viewpoints in terms of the diverse spiritual traditions they draw from, theoretical sources that guide and inform them, or the spiritual applications they bring to their work. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health.

Author : Willow Pearson,Helen Marlo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000214932

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The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy by Willow Pearson,Helen Marlo Pdf

This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical vignettes, chapters explore topics pertaining to the mystical dimensions of psychological and spiritual life and how it may be integrated into clinical practice. Topics discussed include dreams, dissociation, creativity, therapeutic relationship, free association, transcendence, poetry, paradox, doubleness, loss, death, grief, mystery, embodiment and soul. The authors, clinicians with decades of experience in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and spiritual practice, draw from their deep engagement with spirituality and psychoanalysis, focusing on a particular theme and its application to clinical work that is supported by the generative conversation among these lineages. At once applied and theoretical, this book weaves insights from the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Ecumenicism, Integral Spirituality, Judaism, Kabbalah, Non-violence, Sufism and Vedanta. They are in conversation with psychoanalytic perspectives including Jungian, Post-Jungian, Winnicottian, Bionian, Post-Bionian and Relational. A felt sense of the spiritual psyche in clinical practice emerges from this conversation among spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages, beckoning clinicians ever further on the path of spiritually rooted, psychodynamic practice.

Author : Carlton Cornett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Counseling
ISBN : 9780684839028

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The Soul of Psychotherapy by Carlton Cornett Pdf

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 : James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572309385

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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy by James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith Pdf

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 : Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781583943854

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Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D. Pdf

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy collects a series of lectures presented by psychologist Hunter Beaumont over a 10-year period. Covering such themes as relationships, family, healing, grief, mourning, and death, the book features case stories that demonstrate clients’ healing experiences. Practicing in Germany for the past 30 years, Hunter Beaumont has had the unique experience of working with World War II and Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Through this work he discovered that healing requires attending to the soul, a process he describes as an “inner ‘felt sense’ and common, everyday dimension of experience.” Demonstrating how therapists can integrate this more spiritual approach into their practices, Beaumont highlights the particular successes of the innovative family constellations therapy. Developed by German psychologist Bert Hellinger and expanded by Beaumont and others, this therapy takes place in a group setting, with group members standing in for family members or others involved in the client’s problem. A crucial part of Beaumont’s spiritual psychotherapy practice, this method has helped many of his clients release and resolve profound tensions, and offers hope to readers recovering from trauma or PTSD, or simply trying to navigate life’s difficulties.

Author : Richard H. Cox
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780398091279

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SPIRITUALITY AS A WORKING MODEL IN BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY by Richard H. Cox Pdf

Spirituality as a Working Model in Brief Psychotherapy is a practical book that describes easily applicable methods for use by nontheologically trained therapists. The focus is on brief psychotherapy, since long-term treatment is no longer possible for many individuals today living busy lives on a limited budget. The book is unique in its approach involving real-life encounters between patients and therapists with years of experience in both spirituality and psychotherapy. While there are other books in the field of spirituality and psychotherapy, they are written from a traditional Freudian-based philosophy and do not include practical, easily applicable methods for use when time is limited. Most assume a traditional longer commitment by both therapist and patient, which today is often unrealistic. The authors of this book come from multiple disciplines including pastoral counseling, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, social work, and theology. Major areas of presentation include: Spirituality as a Multidimensional Model for Psychotherapy; The Ubiquity of Spirituality; Dynamics of Faith: Understanding Religion and Spirituality; Spirituality and the Therapist; Counseling Body/Soul Persons; Energy of Change; Spiritual Competence in a Medical Setting; Rituals and Symbols in Brief Psychotherapy; Working through the Steps of Spiritual Development; and Ethics in Spiritually Based Psychotherapy. The primary audience for this text is students in all the human behavior fields, professional counselors, clergy, chaplains, as well as professionals already in practice looking for better ways to achieve real results using brief psychotherapy. Each of the 11 chapters contains many practical applications for therapists.

Author : Agneta Schreurs
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781853029752

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Psychotherapy and Spirituality by Agneta Schreurs Pdf

Schreurs presents a range of therapeutic situations, analogies and case-studies in which spiritual concerns may arise, and explores them from spiritual and psychological perspectives, showing how they connect and differ. This engaging book is essential reading for all therapists who feel out of their depth when patients raise spiritual concerns.

Author : Tone Grover,Siv Merete Myra,Ulf Axberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031305269

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New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Adults by Tone Grover,Siv Merete Myra,Ulf Axberg Pdf

This book explores the various applications of systemic understanding in practice. Each chapter covers diverse working contexts and existential life dilemmas, tackling subjects such as: systemic work with individuals, single session family therapy, experiences of adult longing, the therapeutic relationship as a form of love, working systemically with experiences of marginalisation, cultural difference and diversity, the integration of recent neuroscience developments with systemic therapy with couples, the role of forgiveness and the spiritual dimension in therapy. Throughout, this book promotes hope by presenting new horizons and providing room for reflection on uncertainty, change, opportunities, inter-connections and differences. Theoretical expansion of these existential issues lies both at the heart of systemic work and on the leading edge of research and theory-practice linking, showing how the integration of research with new developments across the broader fields of psychotherapy and counselling can be held within a systemic relational umbrella.

Author : Philip Brownell
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826199331

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Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy by Philip Brownell Pdf

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Author : Nathan Field,Trudy Harvey,Belinda Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429919923

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Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality by Nathan Field,Trudy Harvey,Belinda Sharp Pdf

This volume is a much-needed exploration of contemporary theories on psychotherapy and spirituality, moving away from the more traditional, non-spiritual aspects of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The book consists of a dialogue between the opposing sides; most of the papers have responses from the "other" side. This dialogue mirrors the early communication between Freud and Jung regarding spirituality, and opens up doors for continuing collaboration between psychoanalysis as a pure science and the spiritual and religious dimensions within. This inspiring collection of papers grew from the lectures held in 2002 at the London Centre for Psychotherapy. In the time of increased interest in more scientific schools of psychoanalysis such as neuropsycho-analysis, there is also a surge of interest in spirituality within psychoanalysis, as demonstrated by the great interest in these lectures.

Author : Donald Franklin Walker,Christine A. Courtois,Jamie D. Aten
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Intimate partner violence
ISBN : 1433818167

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Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma by Donald Franklin Walker,Christine A. Courtois,Jamie D. Aten Pdf

Trauma can impact people not only psychologically, socially, and physically, but spiritually as well. Recent clinical research has shown that psychotherapists working with traumatized clients can foster better outcomes if they exercise sensitivity to their clients' spiritual needs. This book addresses a wide range of different client presenting problems, with a specific focus on relational forms of trauma, such as sexual abuse, partner violence, and other familial forms of trauma. It includes case studies that highlight how to assess and help clients process these and other types of trauma, including war and natural disasters. The case studies illustrate multiple facets of spirituality rather than explaining it as merely a source of anxiety reduction, social connectedness, or control. Readers will learn how to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy forms of spirituality, and how to apply spiritually-oriented practices within their own setting, theoretical framework, and unique client populations. They will also learn how to work with the ethical challenges and dilemmas trauma treatment can pose to the therapist's competence and world view. Recent years have brought broader awareness and openness to talking about child abuse and other traumatic life events. Survivors of these events often experience spiritual struggles in the course of healing; likewise, in helping clients process trauma, therapists too may come to question why evil exists or why so many people suffer. This book offers practical and reassuring guidance for performing therapy in these situations.

Author : Neil Pembroke,Ewan Kelly,Theo Pleizier,William S. Schmidt,Jan-Albert van den Berg
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666713770

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Spiritual Formation in Local Faith Communities by Neil Pembroke,Ewan Kelly,Theo Pleizier,William S. Schmidt,Jan-Albert van den Berg Pdf

Spiritual formation in our local churches is too often poorly done or it is virtually nonexistent. We developed this innovative approach to spiritual formation in the congregation because it is desperately needed. The prompt cards are used to spark deep reflection and shape potentially life-transforming conversations with a pastor around spiritual practices, spiritual character, personal and social ethics, and emotional well-being. The model was trialed in five countries. We heard time and time again how the six-week process fired a passion to go deeper with Christ. Some reported praying regularly for the first time in decades. Others found the Scriptures coming alive after years of "going through the motions." In this book, the authors present a simple but powerful method and offer in-depth theological reflection on related issues. Some of the important areas covered are early church approaches to spiritual formation, contemporary spiritual practices, spiritual character, the indissoluble link between spirituality and moral virtue, the spirituality of the pastor, and the positive psychology approach.

Author : David G. Benner
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801009480

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Psychotherapy and the Spiritual Quest by David G. Benner Pdf

Author : P. Scott Richards,Allen E. Bergin
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1591470560

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Casebook for a Spiritual Strategy in Counseling and Psychotherapy by P. Scott Richards,Allen E. Bergin Pdf

Leading therapists mine their rich case histories to present valuable teaching tools for theology-minded practitioners. Written from several theistic traditions and psychological orientations, this casebook - the companion volume to A Spiritual Strategy for Counselling and Psychotherapy - examines the therapeutic relationship as it occurs in various forms of Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths, and provides practitioners with examples that should illuminate and inform their practices with clients of varying religious backgrounds.

Author : Dr. Sam Youssef Ph.D.
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798765227398

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Spirituality & Psychology by Dr. Sam Youssef Ph.D. Pdf

As a thinker and a researcher, I have always been pulled deeper into the spiritual dimension of healing over my many years of clinical practice in the field of therapy. Had many questions about an inner power inside us as humans that is waiting to be called out. This power was simply our spiritual power. Adding spirituality to the counseling psychology process would lead to a greater sense of humility, compassion, and forgiveness, as well as divine healing. In this book, I will examine the developing role of spirituality in counseling psychology by analyzing several counseling programs that used the combination of spiritual and psychological/ mental counseling methods in counseling clients. In addition, this book asserts that this integrated approach to counseling psychology causes momentous changes in the human subconscious mind. Human souls co-exist with the human body, and so, must be nurtured. The psycho-spiritual approach touches on the spiritual part of man to sort things out. We shall uncover a hidden healing pattern throughout human history and the development of world faiths that demands humans to acknowledge that they are inadequate and insufficient without the spiritual link. Researchers have shown that those who are more spiritually linked and interested in connecting to their higher mind are healthier, less sad, and more confident than their counterparts who are not connected spiritually. Studying counseling psychology programs in depth was a wonderful way for me to prove that incorporating the spiritual aspect into the counseling process can help people achieve their ultimate full mental health by connecting them to the divine higher intelligence both consciously and subconsciously, and by learning that healing faith teaches us who we are and what our true meaning in this world is.