Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the SacredGuilford Press, 2011 M11 11 - 384 pages 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.
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... relate to each other. Paradoxically, the presence of the spiritual dimension can also be felt through its absence, in feelings of loss and emptiness, in questions about meaning 3 A Rationale for a Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy.
... relate to each other. Paradoxically, the presence of the spiritual dimension can also be felt through its absence, in feelings of loss and emptiness, in questions about meaning 3 A Rationale for a Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy.
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... questions about meaning and purpose, in a sense of alienation and abandonment, and in cries about injustice and unfairness. Spirituality is, in short, another dimension of life. An extraordi- nary dimension, yes, but one that is a vital ...
... questions about meaning and purpose, in a sense of alienation and abandonment, and in cries about injustice and unfairness. Spirituality is, in short, another dimension of life. An extraordi- nary dimension, yes, but one that is a vital ...
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... question. I responded in kind with a question of my own: “I've often wondered, Alice, how in the midst of your terrible suffering, you are able to find some consolation?” She didn't seem surprised by the question. Instead, she paused ...
... question. I responded in kind with a question of my own: “I've often wondered, Alice, how in the midst of your terrible suffering, you are able to find some consolation?” She didn't seem surprised by the question. Instead, she paused ...
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... Questions about spirituality and religion, how- ever, are routinely neglected. Spirituality is separated from the treatment process as if it were an irrelevant topic or a subject so esoteric that it falls outside the bounds of ...
... Questions about spirituality and religion, how- ever, are routinely neglected. Spirituality is separated from the treatment process as if it were an irrelevant topic or a subject so esoteric that it falls outside the bounds of ...
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... questions about our place and purpose in the world , they point to the limits of our powers , and they underscore our finitude . These are , as theologian Paul Tillich ( 1952 ) put it , matters of " ultimate anxiety " : the anxiety of ...
... questions about our place and purpose in the world , they point to the limits of our powers , and they underscore our finitude . These are , as theologian Paul Tillich ( 1952 ) put it , matters of " ultimate anxiety " : the anxiety of ...
Contents
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The Sacred Domain 53 29 | 53 |
Holding On to the Sacred | 77 |
Spiritual Coping to Conserve the Sacred | 94 |
Spiritual Coping to Transform the Sacred | 111 |
Problems of Spiritual Destinations | 129 |
Problems of Spiritual Pathways | 151 |
An Orientation to Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy | 175 |
Initial and Implicit Spiritual Assessment | 201 |
Explicit Spiritual Assessment | 221 |
Drawing on Spiritual Strivings Knowledge and Experience | 242 |
Drawing on Spiritual Practices Relationships | 260 |
Addressing Problems of Spiritual Destinations | 276 |
Addressing Problems of Spiritual Pathways | 293 |
Steps toward a More Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy | 319 |
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