Download or read book Reclaiming the Spiritual Dimension in Existential Psychotherapy written by Timothy Quinlan and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging that storying the self is a more powerful and wholistic way of describing personal identity than the more theoretical and structural approaches offered by mainline therapies from psychodynamic and behaviourist to the more humanistic schools of thought and practice, this dissertation sets out to establish that there is a far deeper reality underpinning the Self. That deeper reality, I argue in these pages is an enlivening spiritual foundation which is all too often unacknowledged and cursorily dismissed. Existential Therapy, I contend, is by far the most profound therapy as it faces head-on the presence of evil in the world at large and in the lives of both therapist and client as well as the more common presenting problems encountered in therapy. Focussing on the clinical work and existential theory of the American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, this dissertation presents the case that, while his approach is at the cutting edge of existential therapy, his work is lacking in its acknowledgement that to do therapy in the most healing way possible involves a spiritual dimension or foundation that can be best approximated through story. It is here that I engage with an analysis of what I argue is the more powerful and effective storying of the Self offered by the nineteenth century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The storying used by Irvin Yalom is immanent and bounded within the human concerns of the patient while the storying employed by Fyodor Dostoevsky is unbounded, open-ended and open to the transcendent. My argument is that this latter unbounded and transcendent-focused writing therapy effects a greater healing than that offered by the immanent therapy provided by Yalom. This dissertation is a detailed examination, then, of the shared existential space between Talk (Yalom) and Text (Dostoevsky) which will result in the fullest healing of the client when at last a spiritual foundation has been acknowledged.

Download or read book Storying the Self written by Timothy Quinlan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging that storying the self is a more powerful and wholistic way of describing personal identity than the more theoretical and structural approaches offered by mainline therapies from psychodynamic and behaviourist to the more humanistic schools of thought and practice, this dissertation sets out to establish that there is a far deeper reality underpinning the Self. That deeper reality, I argue in these pages is an enlivening spiritual foundation which is all too often unacknowledged and cursorily dismissed. Existential Therapy, I contend, is by far the most profound therapy as it faces head-on the presence of evil in the world at large and in the lives of both therapist and client as well as the more common presenting problems encountered in therapy. Focussing on the clinical work and existential theory of the American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, this dissertation presents the case that, while his approach is at the cutting edge of existential therapy, his work is lacking in its acknowledgement that to do therapy in the most healing way possible involves a spiritual dimension or foundation that can be best approximated through story. It is here that I engage with an analysis of what I argue is the more powerful and effective storying of the Self offered by the nineteenth century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The storying used by Irvin Yalom is immanent and bounded within the human concerns of the patient while the storying employed by Fyodor Dostoevsky is unbounded, open-ended and open to the transcendent. My argument is that this latter unbounded and transcendent-focused writing therapy effects a greater healing than that offered by the immanent therapy provided by Yalom. This dissertation is a detailed examination, then, of the shared existential space between Talk (Yalom) and Text (Dostoevsky) which will result in the fullest healing of the client when at last a spiritual foundation has been acknowledged.

Download or read book Psychotherapy and Spirituality written by Agneta Schreurs and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Clinical Perspectives on Meaning written by Pninit Russo-Netzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy . . . is an outstanding collection of new contributions that build thoughtfully on the past, while at the same time, take the uniquely human capacity for meaning-making to important new places." - From the preface by Carol D. Ryff and Chiara Ruini This unique theory-to-practice volume presents far-reaching advances in positive and existential therapy, with emphasis on meaning-making as central to coping and resilience, growth and positive change. Innovative meaning-based strategies are presented with clients facing medical and mental health challenges such as spinal cord injury, depression, and cancer. Diverse populations and settings are considered, including substance abuse, disasters, group therapy, and at-risk youth. Contributors demonstrate the versatility and effectiveness of meaning-making interventions by addressing novel findings in this rapidly growing and promising area. By providing broad international and interdisciplinary perspectives, it enhances empirical findings and offers valuable practical insights. Such a diverse and varied examination of meaning encourages the reader to integrate his or her thoughts from both existential and positive psychology perspectives, as well as from clinical and empirical approaches, and guides the theoretical convergence to a unique point of understanding and appreciation for the value of meaning and its pursuit. Included in the coverage: · The proper aim of therapy: Subjective well-being, objective goodness, or a meaningful life? · Character strengths and mindfulness as core pathways to meaning in life · The significance of meaning to conceptualizations of resilience and posttraumatic growth · Practices of meaning-making interventions: A comprehensive matrix · Working with meaning in life in chronic or life-threatening disease · Strategies for cultivating purpose among adolescents in clinical settings · Integrative meaning therapy: From logotherapy to existential positive interventions · Multiculturalism and meaning in existential and positive psychology · Nostalgia as an existential intervention: Using the past to secure meaning in the present and the future · The spiritual dimension of meaning Clinical Perspectives on Meaning redefines these core healing objectives for researchers, students, caregivers, and practitioners from the fields of existential psychology, logotherapy, and positive psychology, as well as for the interested public.

Download or read book Counselling and Therapy written by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and published by . This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soul of Psychotherapy written by Carlton Cornett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy written by Erik Craig and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An existential therapy handbook from those in the field, with its broad scope covering key texts, theories, practice, and research The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy is a work representing the collaboration of existential psychotherapists, teachers, and researchers. It's a book to guide readers in understanding human life better through the exploration of aspects and applications of existential therapy. The book presents the therapy as a way for clients to explore their experiences and make the most of their lives. Its contributors offer an accurate and in-depth view of the field. An introduction of existential therapy is provided, along with a summary of its historical foundations. Chapters are organized into sections that cover: daseinsanalysis; existential-phenomenonological, -humanistic, and -integrative therapies; and existential group therapy. International developments in theory, practice and research are also examined.

Download or read book Spirituality in Clinical Practice written by Len Sperry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality in Clinical Practice includes perspectives not found in other texts such as a developmental perspective integrating moral and spiritual development, the interface of spiritual development with personality functioning, and insights from object relations, self psychology and transpersonal psychotherapy as they relate to various spiritual traditions and contemporary spiritual practices. This brief, reader-friendly text is written in a highly accessible style and is destined to set a precedent for excellence in the emerging field of spirituality in clinical practice or psychotherapy and counseling.

Download or read book Counsellors Skills in Existentialism and Spirituality written by Mary Gilligan Cuddy and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines an existential approach to therapy, one which appears to reflect and move in synchronicity with lifes flow, rendering it a highly valid and effective response to the existential anguish that has engulfed the mind-set of the twenty-first century. The writer endeavors to explore a number of key existential themes, such as death, freedom, isolation, and meaning. Existentialism presents possibilities and a freedom to be, emanating out of personal responsibility for ones life choices. The movement has evolved over the decades, and countless theologians, philosophers, and psychologists have built on the deposits of knowledge and life experience of our ancestors. The purpose of this research is to explore the theme of spirituality set within an existential framework and to examine the role of the counsellor in dealing with existential and spiritual concerns within this sacred space. The writer suggests that counsellors have a duty of care to explore spiritual and existential issues with the patient. Existential counsellors must explore in depth their own spirituality in order to fully understand the true nature of man. The writer values the existential emphasis on freedom and responsibility and the persons capacity to redesign his or her life by choosing with awareness. The effective counsellor can only lead or direct a client toward his or her spiritual core, leaving the ultimate decision with the individual whether to accept or reject this spiritual dimension. The writer suggests that it is the presence of spirit within the spiritual encounter that heals, transforming and integrating man into wholeness. The author urges the counsellor to humbly embrace this opportunity to explore and encounter the spiritual dimension within the therapeutic relationship as a core counselling objective.

Download or read book Spirituality Psychology written by Dr. Sam Youssef Ph.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Spirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy written by Eugene W. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to help counselors move from a respectful but hesitant neutrality to a skilled, and action-oriented sensitivity toward their clients' spirituality. The primary audience is professional counselors and psychotherapists, social workers, counselor and therapist educators, and counselors-in-training in college programs. The book presents and discusses recent theory and research on spirituality and religion with regard to counseling and psychotherapy. It builds on the premise that spirituality and religion deserve counselors' sensitive regard, informed understanding, and, as ethically and therapeutically appropriate, skillful integration into effective counseling treatment. The first two chapters present information, concepts, and background knowledge that undergird counseling approaches, skills, and techniques. Chapter Three focuses on the relationship dimension of counseling and discusses principles and practices for relating the spiritual/religious dimension of the counseling relationship. Chapter Four looks at systematic approaches for evaluating the appropriateness of including spiritual and religious issues in counseling, and Chapter Five addresses a variety of treatment approaches and techniques for working with clients' spiritual and religious concerns. (Contains over 400 references and an index.) (RJM)

Download or read book Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy written by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Existential Therapy written by Laura Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958 in their book Existence, Rollo May, Henri Ellenberger and Ernst Angel introduced existential therapy to the English-speaking psychotherapy world. Since then the field of existential therapy has moved along rapidly and this book considers how it has developed over the past fifty years, and the implications that this has for the future. In their 50th anniversary of this classic book, Laura Barnett and Greg Madison bring together many of today's foremost existential therapists from both sides of the Atlantic, together with some newer voices, to highlight issues surrounding existential therapy today, and look constructively to the future whilst acknowledging the debt to the past. Dialogue is at the heart of the book, the dialogue between existential thought and therapeutic practice, and between the past and the future. Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue, focuses on dialogue between key figures in the field to cover topics including: historical and conceptual foundations of existential therapy perspectives on contemporary Daseinanalysis the search for meaning in existential therapy existential therapy in contemporary society. Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue explores how existential therapy has changed in the last five decades, and compares and contrasts different schools of existential therapy, making it essential reading for experienced therapists as well as for anyone training in psychotherapy, counselling, psychology or psychiatry who wants to incorporate existential therapy into their practice.

Download or read book Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy written by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Integrated Self written by Lou Kavar and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary research supports the importance of spirituality for mental health. Counselors, social workers, psychologists and other therapists wonder how to include spirituality in treatment. Mental health training and current treatment models do not equip clinicians to adequately address the topic of spirituality. The Integrated Self presents a model for identifying and assessing spirituality within the client’s own life and experience. By operationally defining spirituality as a dimension of the client’s experience, The Integrated Self explores the role of culture, values, beliefs, and lifestyle for understanding the spiritual dimension of the person. Using case studies, clinicians learn how to implement the model of the integrated self within their existing theoretical orientation. The Integrated Self also includes discussions on the approaches for spiritual assessment and ethical issues related incorporating spirituality in mental health treatment. While other books focus on religious beliefs, spiritual practices, or formulations of a general kind of spirituality, The Integrated Self provides a model for a holistic approach that can be adapted in both mental health and health care settings.

Download or read book Skills in Existential Counselling Psychotherapy written by Emmy van Deurzen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first practical introduction to a skills-based Existential approach. Accessible for those without a philosophical background, it describes the concrete and tangible skills, tasks and interactions of Existential practice. It covers: - Theoretical background and history of Existential Therapy - Phenomenological practice - the centre of Existential Therapy - Necessary characteristics of the Existential therapist - Qualities of good living - The process of therapy and the nature of change - Misconceptions about the Existential approach. A much needed resource for those beginning their training as well as more experienced practitioners keen to expand their knowledge, the authors make the Existential approach accessible to all those who wish to find out what it has to offer.

Download or read book Hidden Spring written by Thomas N. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hidden Spring places therapy in a spiritual framework, and draws out the spiritual dimension of the human problems with which therapy deals. Hidden Spring begins on the theoretical plane, talking about the presence of God in ordinary life, of the relationship between psychology and spirituality, and of the contours of a healthy spirituality. Then the book becomes concrete, showing in six case studies of actual therapy how spirituality integrates with psychology in practice." "The problems people bring to therapy always have a spiritual dimension, of which people are often dimly aware. Hidden Spring shows how much richer therapy is when it calls attention to that spiritual dimension, and addresses human struggles both psychologically and spiritually. The author, a therapist and theologian, shows how psychology and spirituality seek a common goal: human healing, growth, and fulfillment. In that endeavor, spirituality offers the larger, more ultimate framework of value, meaning, and power. Each of these important fields needs the other's enrichment and the other's insights and instrumentalities to help people find what they most deeply want."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved