Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-57230-701-8
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffith, James L

Griffith, Melissa Elliott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. New Ways of Hearing Sacred Stories
2. Opening the Door
3. Metaphor and Spirituality
4. Stories of Spiritual Experience
5. Conversations between Person and God
6. Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
7. Rituals, Ceremonies, and Spiritual Practices
8. The Community in Spirituality
9. When Spirituality Turns Destructive
10. Living Beyond Medical and Psychiatric Illnesses

Über Autor(innen)

James L. Griffith, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at The George Washington University Medical Center, where he directs the psychiatry residency training program and the consultation-liaison psychiatry service. Melissa Elliott Griffith, CNS, LMFT, serves on the psychiatry clinical faculty at The George Washington University Medical Center and practices psychotherapy in Vienna, Virginia. They are both affiliated with the Center for Multicultural Human Services in Falls Church, Virginia. They are also coauthors of The Body Speaks: Therapeutic Dialogues for Mind-Body Problems.