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A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems
As more people practice meditation, yoga, and participate in workshops for personal transformation, increasing numbers of them are having experiences related to spiritual awakening. The problem is they don't know the territory. An intense spiritual experience can seem overwhelming and scary and even be confused with going crazy. This practical book is the classic text, newly updated in 2006 (3rd edition), defining the problems that can arise when someone is disoriented by intense spiritual experiences. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in spiritual experiences and their relationship to mental health and mental illness. It distinguishes the differences between various mental pat...
Spiritual Emergency
Argues that many episodes of transformational crisis have been misdiagnosed as mental illness, and explains how to use such a crisis for spiritual development.
Spiritism and Mental Health
This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in English. Providing important new insights into this rich tradition, this text will be of interest to mental health professionals and alternative and complementary health practitioners.
Kardec's Spiritism
Especially of interest to those involved with healing and healthcare: The first book to describe contemporary spiritual healing centers in Brazil including a psychiatric hospital where spiritual healers collaborate with conventionally trained healthcare professionals. There are more than 12,000 of these centers in Brazil; 20-40 million Brazilians use this resource for spiritual growth, healing, and to maintain wellness. These Centers welcome people of all religions and cultures, offering effective forms of healing as a free service. The introduction to the philosophy of Spiritism is presented in a clear, easy to understand manner. The description of the methods for healing used over more than 150 years demonstrate that Brazil has developed an effective model of integrative health care. The author spent half of each year, 2001-2012, in Brazil studying these centers and hospitals. She is a psychologist, teacher, prolific author and pioneer in the area of healing and spiritual awakening. She suggests that importing components of Brazil's Spiritist Centers could help us improve our ailing healthcare system.
Spiritual Alliances
Spiritual Alliances offers a clear-eyed report of extraordinary events at the Casa de Dom Inacio in Brazil, where dramatic healings are taking place, apparently through the intervention of spiritual entities. These inspired being are either channeled by a man called John of God, or become present directly in special group rooms dedicated to healing and meditation.Bearing witness to the events taking place at "The Casa", Spiritual Alliances powerfully suggests that there is profound healing support available from the spiritual dimension, and that this phenomenon may not be limited to special places like The Casa.An impactful, yet non-polarizing look at the shortcomings of Western Medicine helps readers reflect on conventional medicine vis a vis spiritual treatment at the Casa. Five interviews with Western medical types document what it is like to observe, learn and be transformed by experiencing The Casa. Readers will be moved and inspired by the stories of people who came to the Casa and were healed, not only physically, but in their hearts, minds and spirits.
Spiritism and Mental Health
An account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. It explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA.
Parallel Worlds
As far back as she could remember Josephine had experienced psychic phenomenon, knew she had lived before and seemed to carry within her a passion for exploring what life is really about. With her husband Brian by her side, their joint curiosity evoked for them a challenging, interesting and sometimes exciting life, but more importantly, they discovered they had led many lives, some of them together upon ancient sites in Dorset and Somerset. They were on a mission this time to rectify and adjust the energies generated by the events of centuries past. Josephine's story recounts her interactions with what she likes to call 'yesterday's people', some of whom, she had spent past life times with....
My Beautiful Psychosis
"Emma manages to bring the reader into the experience in a way I have never seen before."-- Dr. Russell Razzaque, Consultant Psychiatrist, author Breaking Down Is Waking Up and founder of Peer Supported Open Dialogue Through seven episodes, author Emma Goude takes readers on a journey to make sense of psychosis. As a troubled twenty-something, she experienced the harsh landscapes of psychiatric wards before eventually becoming the respected documentary filmmaker she is today. In this personal journey, Goude campaigns for a new perspective on mental health and well-being. My Beautiful Psychosis has a powerful message to convey and turns on its head the idea that psychosis is a debilitating illness, caused by a brain chemical imbalance, which requires medication for life. Whilst medication is sometimes useful, it doesn't really attend to the deeper need: for validation, compassionate holding, skillful navigation and most of all grounding. This book will inspire others who have been given a label that has severely restricted their lives, and act as a beacon of light for them to reclaim the power of their own innate healing ability.
Resources for Extraordinary Healing
Sixteen million Americans (5% of our population) are crippled by serious mental illness. The numbers of mentally-disabled needing supplemental income is now 6 times what it was in 1955.After a brief assessment of our profound problems in treating mental illness, the book reveals a new, more effective and less costly paradigm to diagnose and treat the causes of emotional disturbance that has been developing in Brazil. Through compelling, engaging stories of real people, it spells out this new form of integrative mental health care that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of mental illness. It describes the new forms of diagnostics and treatment in which conventional medical doctors collaborate w...
The Call of Spiritual Emergency
A feast of revealing narratives expose the amazing story of how people deal with critical points in personal transformation, also known as spiritual emergency. With the increase of interest in yoga, meditation, mental health recovery, and recovery from addiction there is renewed interest in care that is not based on medication as much as empathy and compassionate companionship. This book helps anyone who doesn't have a language to understand intense inner experiences and confuses them with mental illness. If you have felt disoriented by intense spiritual experiences this book will help you understand where you are and where you may be heading. It is a map of the journey of spiritual awakening written by a psychologist who knows the territory well. Reading it may make the difference between heading off to the hospital to get drugs to stop the symptoms or staying home and knowing you are OK. Just because you have had a conversation with your spirit guide, or talked to the spirit of someone who has passed away doesn't mean you are having a breakdown. It could mean you are having a breakthrough to a higher level of functioning. The author is a psychologist and knows the territory.
