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The
Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook |
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Alternative Methods for
Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders |
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Edited by
Sharon G. Mijares, PhD
Psychologist
Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD, LPCC
Psychotherapist, Meditation Expert |
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Learn to treat a variety of diagnostic
disorders through various psychospiritual treatment models!
Increasing numbers of people are moving beyond psychological
therapy to seek alternative spiritual perspectives to medical
and mental health care such as yoga and meditation. The
Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for
Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders provides the latest
theoretical perspectives and practical applications by
recognized experts in positive and integrative psychotherapy.
Leading clinicians examine and re-examine their therapeutic
worldviews and attitudes to focus on the right problems to
solve—for the whole person.
This essential handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now
sweeping the field of psychology, that of locating the whole
human being in the center of the therapeutic process. The
Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for
Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders helps you
effectively treat the whole person by providing a practical
introduction to some of the worldviews and most effective
practices like yoga, meditation, and humanological therapy used
by psychospiritually oriented therapists. Helpful illustrations
of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs,
tables, figures, and detailed case studies illustrate the
process.
The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods
for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders will show you:
- the importance of a therapist’s
worldview for effective therapeutic outcome
- new perspectives on alternative
treatments for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD,
PTSD, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, and sexual dysfunction
- how yoga and mindfulness
meditation can be used in psychotherapy
- the use and integration of
meditation therapies in emergency situations
- the therapeutic integration of
other alternative treatments, such as Kundalini yoga
- each contributor’s case studies
as illustration of effective treatment
The Psychospiritual Clinician’s
Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating
Mental Disorders is an invaluable resource for those interested
in treating patients with a therapeutic process that is
effective, adaptable, and wholly transformational. |
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About the Editors
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Contributors
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Foreword (Thomas Moore)
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction (Sharon G. Mijares
and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa)
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Rising Demand for Research in
Integrative Psychospiritual Therapy
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Historical Movements Toward a
Model of Psychospirituality
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Authors in This Collection
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Chapter 1. Approaching
Extraordinary Experiences in the Mental Health Field
(John E. Mack)
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Chapter 2. Seasons of Change:
Adjustment Disorders As Summons to New Life Structure
(Dwight H. Judy)
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Chapter 3. Breathing into Fear:
Psychospiritual Approaches for Treating Anxiety (Selene
Vega)
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Chapter 4. Sacred Wounding:
Traumatic Openings to the Larger Self (Sharon G. Mijares)
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Chapter 5. Eating Disorders As
Messengers from the Soul (Anita Johnston and Kyrai
Antares)
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Chapter 6. Getting Focused in
an Age of Distraction: Approaches to Attentional
Disorders Using the Humanology of Yogi Bhajan (Gurucharan
Singh Khalsa)
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Chapter 7. Dissociative
Identity Disorder and Psychospiritual Perspectives
(Colin A. Ross)
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Chapter 8. Alternative
Treatments for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality
Disorders (Manjit Kaur Khalsa)
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Chapter 9. Assessment and
Treatment of Conduct Disorders: A Moral Reasoning Model
and Psychospiritual Approach (Celia A. Drake and Deborah
Lewis)
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Chapter 10. Bipolar Disorder
and Western Anosognosia (Jeffrey Rediger)
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Chapter 11. Spiritual and
Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotic Disorders (David
Lukoff)
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Chapter 12. Journey into the
Heart: Sufi Ways for Healing Depression (Arife Ellen
Hammerle)
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Chapter 13. Mindful Awareness
and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Integrating
Psychospiritual and Biological Approaches to Mental
Health with a Focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Elizabeth Z. Gulliford, Jessica
Stier, and Margo Thienemann)
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Chapter 14. Spirituality and
Sexuality: Celebrating Erotic Transcendence and
Spiritual Embodiment (Peggy J. Kleinplatz and Stanley
Krippner)
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Chapter 15. An Integrative
Medical Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease (Dharma Singh
Khalsa)
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Chapter 16. The Phenomenon of
Centers Supporting Spiritual Approaches to Psychotherapy
(Henry Grayson and Bruce Kerievsky)
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Index
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Reference Notes Included
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