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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Psychotherapy and Spirituality; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: Spirituality in the Therapeutic Session; Introducing Part 1; 1 Flight, Fright or Faith?; 2 Groundless or Reasonable Fear?; 3 Psychological or Spiritual Trauma?; 4 Vision or Hallucination?; 5 Depression or Spiritual Darkness?; 6 Narcissism or Misdirected Worship?; Concluding Part 1; Part 2: A Grammar of Western Consciousness; Introducing Part 2; 7 The Past Complicates the Present; 1 Exploring the discrepancy between religious and secular subcultures; 2 Plausibility structures. |
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3 Losing our sense of unity4 The break-up between spirituality and theology; 5 The impoverishment of religious language; 6 Symbolic miscommunication; 7 The problematic situation of the contemporary religious believer; 8 Bringing the Background to the Fore; 1 The Foundation Matrix; 2 A group acting out themes of the foundation matrix; 3 Foundation matrix and spiritual concerns; 4 Metacommunication; 5 Why concern ourselves with the foundation matrix?; 9 Psychotherapy and Cultural Root Metaphors; 1 Foundation matrix and metaphors; 2 Root metaphor theory. |
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3 How cultural root metaphors may be problematic4 Cultural root metaphors in psychotherapy; 5 Spirituality and cultural root metaphors; 6 How cultural root metaphors can shape spiritual concerns; 10 Psychotherapy and Spiritual Root Metaphors; 1 Spiritual root metaphors; 2 What is the function of spiritual root metaphors?; 3 Criteria for adequate spiritual root metaphors; 4 When spiritual root metaphors are disconnected from their context; 5 Excursus: journeys and laws; 6 The consequences of disconnecting the trial metaphor; 7 Therapy and spiritual root metaphors; 8 Psychotherapy and the Bible. |
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11 Spiritual Root Metaphors and Modern Western Consciousness1 Spiritual metaphors as hidden navigators; 2 When the journey metaphor goes underground; 3 When the trial metaphor goes underground; 4 When the warfare metaphor goes underground; 5 Psychotherapy and disconnected spiritual root metaphors; Concluding Part 2; Part 3: Existential and Cognitive Aspects of Spirituality; Introducing Part 3; 12 Spirituality as a Change Process; 1 An ancient theory of spiritual development; 2 Adapting the ancient systematisation to modern experience; 3 Why 'aspects' rather than 'phases'? |
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4 Psychotherapy and the spiritual change process5 Spirituality and customary religious behaviour; 13 The Existential Aspect of Spirituality; 1 Psychotherapy and the existential dimension; 2 Existential consciousness; 3 Spiritual True Self; 4 Characteristics of the existential aspect; 5 How the existential interacts with psychotherapy; 6 Discernment at the existential level; 14 Psychotherapy and the Struggle for Authentic Spirituality; 1 Deciding about spiritual True Self; 2 Spiritual self-doubt and ambivalence; 3 The existential aspect of spiritual change; 4 'Transcendtal' anorexia nervosa. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects.
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Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects. |
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Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Psychotherapy patients -- Religious life.
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Psychotherapy patients -- Religious life. |
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Psychotherapy patients. |
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Group psychoanalysis.
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Group psychoanalysis. |
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Spiritual life.
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Spiritual life. |
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Spirituality.
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Spirituality. |
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Psychotherapist and patient. |
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Psychotherapy. |
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Professional-Patient Relations. |
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Spirituality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schreurs, A. (Agneta). Psychotherapy and spirituality. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002 1853029750 (DLC) 2001029762 (OCoLC)46822346 |
| ISBN |
1423710460 (electronic book) |
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9781423710462 (electronic book) |
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184642061X |
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9781846420610 |
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9781853029752 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1853029750 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
