Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Edition: UK ed., 3/18/2016
EAN 9781909726451, ISBN10: 1909726451
Paperback, 204 pages, 23.4 x 15.5 x 1 cm
Language: English
Spiritual issues still raise ethical and professional dilemmas in mental healthcare. This text use narrative excerpts and case illustrations to explore the importance and challenge of spirituality in clinical psychiatric practice and show how spiritual concerns can be included in a range of psychiatric treatment options.
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.