Psychosis and Spirituality

Consolidating the New Paradigm
Herausgeber: Clarke, Isabel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latest research to present a unique exploration of the psychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from a broad range of distinguished contributors, including Peter Fenwick and Gordon Claridge, to develop and support the link between these two areas of human experience. This text offers a fundamental rethinking of the interface between psychosis and spirituality, proposing new and original insights. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased momentum to this field, which in turn has enabled a more hopeful and less stigmatizing perspective on psychosis. The second edition reflects the most recent body of qualitative and quantitative research, and the latest clinical initiatives. This has led to the addition of ten new chapters, and an expanded clinical section, which will be highly relevant to clinicians working with psychosis. This new perspective will be important for those with a professional interest in both psychosis and spirituality, such as therapists and priests, in addition to those seeking a well-grounded framework for their own personal explorations in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780470683484
• ISBN-10: 0470683481
• Artikelnr.: 35422611

Autorenporträt

Isabel Clarke is a consultant clinical psychologist, working in acute mental health in the NHS. She is the author of Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God (2008), and co-editor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units: Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu (with H. Wilson, 2008). For more information, please visit www.isabelclarke.org.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

Acknowledgement.

Notes on Editor and Contributors.

1 Psychosis and Spirituality Revisited: The Frontier is OpeningUp! (Isabel Clarke).

Section 1. Neuropsychology.

2 The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience (PeterFenwick).

3 Cognitive Neuroscience, Spirituality and Mysticism: RecentDevelopments (B. Les Lancaster).

Section 2. Spirituality Revisited.

4 The Polarities of Consciousness (Natalie Tobert).

5 Missing Stories: Psychosis, Spirituality and the Developmentof Western Religious Hermeneutics (Neil Douglas-Klotz).

Section 3. The Mystical Face of Psychosis: The Psychotic Faceof Mysticism. The New Continuum.

6 'On Not Drinking Soup with a Fork': From Spiritual Experienceto Madness to Growth - A Personal Journey (Peter K.Chadwick).

7 Spiritual Experience: Healthy Psychoticism? (GordonClaridge).

8 'Psychopathology', 'Psychosis' and the Kundalini: Post-ModernPerspectives On Unusual Subjective Experience (RichardHouse).

Section 4. The Discontinuity Hypothesis and its PhilosophicalImplications.

9 Psychosis and Spirituality: The Discontinuity Model (IsabelClarke).

10 Knowledge and Reality (Chris Clarke).

Section 5. Research.

11 Are Delusions on a Continuum? The Case of Religious andDelusional Beliefs (Emmanuelle Peters).

12 The Paradigm-Shifting Hypothesis: A Common Process in BenignPsychosis and Psychotic Disorder (Mike Jackson).

13 Transformative Crises (Caroline Brett).

14 Exploring the Transliminal: Qualitative Studies (SharonWarwick and Roger Waldram).

Section 6. Clinical Implications.

15 'What is Real and What is Not': Towards a PositiveReconceptualisation of Vulnerability to Unusual Experiences(Isabel Clarke).

16 Visionary Spiritual Experiences (David Lukoff).

17 Learning to Become Centred and Grounded and Let the VoicesCome and Go (Nigel Mills).

18 Mapping Our Madness: The Hero's Journey as A TherapeuticApproach (Janice Hartley).

19 Spirituality, Psychosis and the Development of 'NormalisingRationales' (David Kingdon, Ron Siddle, Farooq Naeem and ShanayaRathod).

20 Endword (Isabel Clarke).

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latestresearch to present an original and unique exploration of thepsychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor bringstogether fascinating perspectives from a broad range ofdistinguished contributors." (Studies in Spirituality, 2011)

"This book is an updated and expanded version of a collection ofessays first published about ten years ago, when some of the ideasit explores were fairly news ... This book is generally written atan accessible level, and draws on much useful recent research inthis area. Section 5, entitled 'Research', would be the mostfruitful part for a non-specialist to sample." (The Way, 1 January2012)

"In a valuable contribution to this expanding field, consultantclinical psychologist Clarke (NHS Foundation Trust, UK) thusintroduces 20 chapters by UK-based multidisciplinary authors thatexplore the neuropsychology of such experiences, culture-specificideas of spirituality and psychosis, psychosis/ mysticism as acontinuum, recent research in this area, and clinical implications(e.g., the "mad" hero's journey as a therapeutic approach)." (BookNews, 1 August 2011)

"This book is aimed at anyone interested in the phenomenon ofpsychosis." (Mental Health Practice, 1 March 2011)'Spirituality is the key strand that unites the great varietyof cultural understandings of psychosis with recovery. This textcontains contributions from leading authorities in the field; itpoints towards a more complete human approach to psychosis, andchallenges long-held assumptions about the nature of humanexperience. It should be read by all mental health practitionersand students, and will be of interest to academics in theology,anthropology and philosophy, as well as service users andcarers.'
--Professor Philip Thomas, University of Bradford, UK