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This text use narrative excerpts and case illustrations to explore the importance and challenge of spirituality in clinical psychiatric practice.
List of contents
Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Narrative in psychiatry, theology and spirituality; 2. Spirituality and transcultural narratives; 3. Psychopathology and the clinical story; 4. Helping patients tell their story: narratives of body, mind and soul; 5. Gods lost and found: spiritual coping in clinical practice; 6. Stories of joy and sorrow: spirituality and affective disorder; 7. Stories of fear: spirituality and anxiety disorders; 8. Stories of transgression: narrative therapy with offenders; 9. Narratives of transformation in psychosis; 10. My story: a spiritual narrative; 11. God's story revealed in the human story; 12. Meaning without 'believing': attachment theory, mentalisation and the spiritual dimension of analytical psychotherapy; 13. Stories of living with loss: spirituality and ageing; 14. Beginnings and endings.
About the author
About the editors: Professor Christopher C.H. Cook - Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health, Durham University and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Andrew Powell - Former Consultant Psychotherapist at Warneford Hospital, Oxford and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Professor Andrew Sims - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Leeds.
