Psychosis and Spirituality: Exploring the New FrontierIsabel Clarke Wiley, 2001 - 271 pagine Spirituality and psychosis both inhabit the region where ordinary reason ceases to function and barriers break down. The connection between them is evident - what is remarkable is how conventional thinking obscures the connection. This book challenges conventional understandings with a radical new perspective. The interface between psychosis and spirituality is explored, drawing on key research and latest developments from a wide spread of disciplines: Gordon Claridge on schizotypy, Peter Fenwick on the neuropsychological perspective, Neil Douglas Klotz on a new understanding of spirituality, Peter Chadwick on the mystical side of psychosis, David Kingdon on CBT for psychosis and religious delusions, are just five of the 12 distinguished contributors to this book. This new perspective will be important for those professionally interested in both psychosis and spirituality (therapists, priests, etc.) people seeking a well grounded framework for their own direct expererience in this area and everyone interested in the latest thinking and research on this topic. |
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... reality , are the remoter vistas of particle physics and cosmology which are in any case of no direct relevance to ... consensual reality . He would have agreed with Descartes that any other form of experience would therefore be ...
... consensual reality should be traced to specific neurological malfunctioning . This would be the case , irrespective of whether the experience played a life - enhancing ( spiritual ? ) or life - contracting ( psychotic ? ) role . This ...
... consensual reality , and a lack of ' insight ' concerning the presence of a mental illness . Although the definition of psychotic disorders has always been contentious ( Bentall , Jackson and Pilgrim 1988 ) , the conventional defining ...