Author: Emma Bragdon
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 1848191359
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Author: Emma Bragdon
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 1848191359
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Author: John F. Schumaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195361490
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is an interdisciplinary collection of previously unpublished papers on the controversial relationship between religious behavior and mental health. Schumaker has assembled a distinguished international roster of contributors--sociologists and anthropologists as well as psychiatrists and psychologists of religion--representing a wide range of opinions concerning the mental health implications of religious belief and practice. Taken together, the papers provide a comprehensive overview of theory and research in the field. Included are papers on the interaction of religion and self-esteem, life meaning and well-being, sexual and marital adjustment, anxiety, depression, suicide, psychoticism, rationality, self-actualization, and various patterns of anti-social behavior. Religion is also dealt with in relation to mental health of women, the elderly, and children. Contributions dealing with mental health in non-Western religious groups add an important cross-cultural dimension to the volume.
Author: Dr. Al L. Holloway
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153200477X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Ugli Fruit: Tapping the Inner Spirit for Greater Mental Health is a reminder that we are more than our outer layer projections. It is also a reminder for therapists that we must minister to the spirit to facilitate good mental health. If spiritual development is not considered by client or therapist, there is little healing and no fundamental and lasting change. No matter our outward reflections, no matter our life circumstances, we are all made in the image of all mighty God. We have a prestigious heritage and birthright that grants us access to the kingdom of Godright here on Earth. God has not bestowed upon any of us a disturbed mind, discord within our families or disharmony within the world. God has granted us peace, and there is a spiritual prescription for peace: faith in and obedience to God. The Ugli Fruit: Tapping the Inner Spirit for Greater Mental Health clarifies the importance of spiritual health to overall well-being.
Author: John A. Saliba
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042984820X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this title was compiled in response to the concern, in some segments of society, about the presence of new religious movements in the West in the second half of the twentieth century. There are lots of psychological questions surrounding cults and the influence they have over their members. These questions have been operative in the accumulation of this annotated bibliography, which was intended primarily as a reference guide for psychiatrists and counsellors who advise cult members, ex-cult members and their bewildered parents, and lawyers who use psychiatric arguments in the courts.
Author: Arthur Hawes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1911221566
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
What is dementia! Insanity? Mental illness? Thus compassionate and insightful account by one with long experience of working with 'mental health' sufferers sheds unexpected light on the subject. It's realist and accessible approach is not to be missed by anyone who cares about the health of ourselves and of our human companions in this life.,
Author: Helene Basu
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643907079
Category : Psychiatry and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For more than a century, anthropologists and psychiatrists engage in conversations concerning relationships between embodied well-being and religion. Taking account of shifting meanings of 'religion' in global modernities, the included essays reveal how historically and culturally embedded local encounters between psychiatry, religious experience, and ritual healing contribute to an increasing diversification of 'mental health.' The multitude of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches brought to the field in the global north and the global south introduce novel insights into current debates between clinical practitioners, ethnographic fieldworkers, and historians of psychiatry. (Series: Culture, Religion and Psychiatry, Vol. 1) [Subject: Psychiatry, Religious Studies, Ethnography, Sociology]
Author: Alan Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Author: Alan Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Author: Charles Negy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cross-cultural counseling
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Author: B.S. Comstock
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940118108X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
psychiatric treatment approaches there are opportunities for trial and error, exploration and reconsideration, revision of treatment approach, and correc tion of errors. Revisions and corrections are based on observations of pro gress and on response from patients about the impact of treatment efforts. But emergency interventions usually are one time efforts involving a sequence of evaluation, therapeutic intervention, and referral out. Response is limited or absent and there are no opportunities for corrections over time. Therefore, interventions and referrals must be made on the basis of first evaluations, with positive conviction related to current best effort and despite the lack of guidance derived from tracking the patient's progress over time. The staff must tolerate the risk-taking required, and must also be prepared to forego the gratification of seeing the beneficial results of the work done. Even in pro grams structured to allow return visits, and despite the occasional information provided by other agencies after referrals, the majority of patients are lost to follow up. The usefulness of specific interventions is hard to evaluate and the satisfaction of seeing a task completed is rarely available. The emergency program staff must tolerate a considerable amount of stress in the environment. Emergency care centers are collection points for an extraordinary volume of human suffering. The anxieties and strains asso ciated with persistent urgency of need, alarm related to unexpected difficul ties, fearfulness about outcome, closeness of death, and presence of pain pervade the atmosphere.
