Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice

Herausgeber: Cook, Christopher C H; Sims, Andrew; Powell, Andrew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text use narrative excerpts and case illustrations to explore the importance and challenge of spirituality in clinical psychiatric practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Royal College of Psychiatrists
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781909726451
• ISBN-10: 1909726451
• Artikelnr.: 44760851

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.