Description
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of the place of spirituality in mental healthcare.
Clinical papers are interspersed with reflections by the author on his many years of therapeutic practice and exploration of the inner life. The present climate of materialist science has led to an unremitting search for the biological causation of mental disorders, accompanied by heavy reliance on prescription drugs.
Andrew Powell offers a vision of health and wholeness that goes beyond the limitations of the physical sciences, drawing attention to an ever-present spiritual reality that accompanies us through life, and shows how in times of pain and confusion the wisdom of the soul can be called upon to bring clarity, purpose and renewed hope.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1. The Contribution of Spirit Release
Therapy to Mental Health
2. Why Must We Suffer? A Psychiatrist Reflects
3. Spirituality and Psychiatry – Crossing the Divide
4. Whither the Soul of Psychiatry?
5. Past Life Memory – A Key to Understanding the Self?
6. Soul-Centred Psychotherapy
7. Healing and the Wounded Psyche
8. Open Heart, Open Mind: Conversing with the Soul
9. Recovery and Well-Being: The Search for the Soul
10. Vocation Under Duress
11. The Whole Patient
12. What Does It Mean to be Human?
13. The Place of Medicine in Today’s World
14. Technology and Soul in the 21st Century
15. Modernity and the Beleaguered Soul
16. Helping Patients Tell Their Story: Narratives of Body, Mind and Soul
17. Prejudice – Can We Live Without It?
Index
