Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice

ISBN-13: 9781909726451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str.

Christopher Cook

Opis

For mental health service users, spirituality and faith are closely connected with questions of relationship, transcendence, and finding meaning and purpose in life - questions best approached by way of narrative (or story). In clinical practice, narrative can provide a means of exploring the ethical and professional dilemmas that are encountered when spiritual and/or religious concerns are in evidence. Narrative has been recognised as important in both medicine and theology, and now it can be employed as a framework for addressing spirituality and religion in clinical psychiatric practice, encompassing addictions, liaison and forensic psychiatry, and spanning all ages and cultures.
- Breaks new ground in using narrative to explore the importance and challenge of spirituality in clinical psychiatric practice.
- Includes narrative excerpts and case illustrations to show how spiritual concerns can be included in a range of psychiatric treatment options.
- Provides a tool for exploring the ethical and professional dilemmas spirituality still raises in mental healthcare.
- Presents contributions from patients, chaplains, and leading psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.

Spis treści

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.