Psychosis and Spirituality

Author(s): Isabel Clarke

Psychoses

Spirituality and psychosis both inhabit the region where ordinary reason ceases to function and barriers break down. The connection between them is evident - what is remarkable is how conventional thinking obscures the connection. This volume challenges conventional understandings. The interface between psychosis and spirituality is explored, drawing on research and developments from a wide spread of disciplines. The 12 contributors include Gordon Claridge on schizotypy, Peter Fenwick on the neuropsychological perspective, Neil Douglas-Klotz on an understanding of spirituality, Peter Chadwick on the mystical side of psychosis, and David Kingdon on CBT for psychosis and religious disorders.


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Part one - Foundations 1 - Introduction, Cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, Isabel Clarke 2 - The neurophysiology of religious experience, Peter Fenwick Part two - Spirituality revisited 3 - The polarities of consciousness, Natalie Tobert 4 - Missing Stories: psychosis, spirituality and the development of western religious hermeneutics, Neil Douglas-Klotz Part three - The Mystical face of psychosis; the psychotic face of mysticism. The new continuum 5 - Sanity to supersanity to insanity: a personal journey, Peter K Chadwick 6 - Spiritual experience: healthy psychoticism? Gordon Claridge 7 - Psychopathology, psychosis and the kundalini: postmodern perspectives on unusual subjective experience, Richard House Part four - The discontinuity hypothesis and its philosophical implications 8 - Psychosis and spirituality: the discontinuity model, Isabel Clarke 9 - Construction and reality: reflections on philosophy and spiritual/psychotic experience, Chris Clarke Part five - Research 10 - Psychotic and spiritual experience: a case study comparison, Mike Jackson 11 - Are delusions on a continuum? The case of religious and delusional beliefs, Emmanuelle Peters Part six - Clinical implications 12 - The experience of fragmentation in psychosis: can mindfulness help? Nigel Mills 13 - Spirituality, psychosis and the development of 'normalising rationales', David Kingdon, Ron Siddle and Shanaya Rathod 14 - Endword, Isabel Clarke

General Fields

  • : 9781861562029
  • : Unknown
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : February 2001
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Isabel Clarke
  • : Paperback
  • : 616.89
  • : 200