Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice

List of contents

Preface to the Series , Introduction , The legacy of Freud on religion , Jung: the symbolic and the arcane , The creation of our internal image of God: influences personal, developmental, and cultural , Spirituality, and God as a transitional object , Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: from inspiration to addiction , Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: the importance of the ego in seeing visions or hearing voices , Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: from identification to possession—myths of the hero/saviour and of the Devil , Conclusion

About the author

Margaret Clark trained as a psychodynamic counsellor and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at WPF Therapy before she trained as a Jungian analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London.

Summary

Suitable for trainees on psychotherapy, this title demonstrates, through numerous clinical vignettes, how clinicians can understand a patient's talking about religion or about God - hearing the voice of God, having a vision of God, or being convinced that God wants them to act in a particular way; or, equally, seeing the Devil.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Clark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367107130
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10713-0
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Individual Psychotherapy, Jung and Analytical Psychology