The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Pastoral Counseling : Community and Silence

ISBN-13: 9780789030429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 134 str.

David Welton

Opis

The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Pastoral Counseling introduces a new treatment model based on Quaker ideas and practices that can be used in conjunction with medical and psychological practice for treating manic-depressive illness. This unique book examines the interplay between religion and psychoanalysis, using the latest research on the importance of silence, prayer, and meditation in psychotherapy, the role of community in healing, and the problem of God and suffering. The book includes clinical examples from the author's counseling practice, case studies of bipolar clients, and an extensive bibliography of materials on this crippling disorder that affects more than two million American adults.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Chapter 1. Current Research into Bipolar Disorder
  
• Defining Bipolar Disorder
  
• Treatment by Physicians
  
• Genetic Factors in Bipolar Disorder
  
• Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder
  
• Chapter 2. Current Pastoral Counseling Theory
  
• Case Study
  
• Beginnings
  
• Pastoral Counseling with the Bipolar Client
  
• Treatment Models
  
• Conflict in Pastoral Counseling
  
• The Religious Experience of Suffering
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 3. Quaker Treatment of the Mentally Ill
  
• A Model
  
• The Founders
  
• A Theology of Quakerism?
  
• Silence
  
• Connections and Modern Expressions
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 4. Silence and Psychotherapy with Bipolar Disorder
  
• A Personal Anecdote
  
• Aspects of Silence in Religious Experience
  
• Prayer and Silence
  
• Self-Emptying As a Way Toward Health
  
• Silence and Psychotherapy
  
• Chapter 5. Community in Treatment
  
• Case Study
  
• Community in the Social Sciences
  
• Public Perception of Mental Illness
  
• Theology and Community
  
• Applying Spirituality, Community, and Psychotherapy
  
• Chapter 6. Theological Reflection on Bipolar Disorder
  
• Suffering in Schillebeeckx’s Theology
  
• Solidarity and Freedom
  
• Case Analysis
  
• Chapter 7. Conclusions
  
• References
  
• Index
  

O autorze

David Welton, DMin, is chaplain at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His professional work has included parish ministry, chaplaincy, and family therapy. His current professional interests include mental illness and faith, dementia studies, and the psychiatric dimensions of grief.