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Spiritism and Mental Health

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 9780857010391
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Spiritism and Mental Health written by Emma Bragdon and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. Leading practitioners and researchers in the field describe the history, principles and diagnostic processes of the Spiritist approach to mental health, and provide an extensive summary of the various methodologies used, including spiritual mediumship, energy work, prayer, homeopathy, past life regression and the practice of integrating spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy. Considering the ways in which Spiritism aligns with contemporary science, they show that the Spiritist model has the potential to bring about a positive transformation in the ways in which mental health care is conceptualized and delivered around the globe. The final part of the book explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA. Providing important new insights into the rich tradition of Brazilian Spiritism, this authoritative text will be of interest to mental health professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and complementary health practitioners.

Spiritism and Mental Health

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 1848191359
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Spiritism and Mental Health written by Emma Bragdon and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rx, Spiritist as Needed

Author : Alan Harwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rx, Spiritist as Needed written by Alan Harwood and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

Author : Helmar Kurz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040047939
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing by : Helmar Kurz

Download or read book Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing written by Helmar Kurz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people inside and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the Aesthetics of Healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly. Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, Spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use.

Psychiatry and the Spirit World

Author : Alan Sanderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644115778
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry and the Spirit World written by Alan Sanderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist’s comprehensive examination of evidence for the survival of consciousness after death • Explains the author’s practice of psychiatric spirit release, centered on the spiritual and psychic aspects of emotional disturbance • Offers profound accounts of the survival of the spirit after death, from ancient times to the present day, including near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, reincarnation, and dreams • Examines evidence for mediumship, clairvoyance, telepathy, and the psychic aspects of heart transplants After a twenty-year break from practice, Alan Sanderson returned to clinical psychiatry at age fifty-nine and soon realized that many of his patients were plagued by troublesome earthbound spirits, some of whom had been attached across lifetimes to multiple incarnations as well as multiple hosts. By talking with these attached spirits and persuading them to leave their hosts, Dr. Sanderson found remarkable success in the treatment of his patients. Now, more than 30 years later, Dr. Sanderson shares his extensive research on the afterlife, the survival of consciousness after physical death, and paranormal phenomena related to the spirit world. He explains his practice of psychiatric spirit release, centered on the spiritual and psychic aspects of emotional disturbance, and shares case studies complete with full accounts of treatment sessions. He offers first-hand accounts of the survival of the spirit after death, from ancient times to the present day, and explores end-of-life experiences, including what is witnessed by the living people in the room, as well as profound accounts of near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and reincarnation. He examines evidence for mediumship, clairvoyance, telepathy, and the psychic aspects of heart transplants. He also details cases of remote healing, further proving the existence of connections beyond the material world. Presenting a wealth of evidence, as well as suggestions for new treatment possibilities for mental health problems, Dr. Sanderson offers a comprehensive examination of spirit existence and the survival of consciousness after death.

Kardec's Spiritism

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145661004X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Kardec's Spiritism written by Emma Bragdon and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially of interest to those involved with healing and healthcare: The first book to describe contemporary spiritual healing centers in Brazil including a psychiatric hospital where spiritual healers collaborate with conventionally trained healthcare professionals. There are more than 12,000 of these centers in Brazil; 20-40 million Brazilians use this resource for spiritual growth, healing, and to maintain wellness. These Centers welcome people of all religions and cultures, offering effective forms of healing as a free service. The introduction to the philosophy of Spiritism is presented in a clear, easy to understand manner. The description of the methods for healing used over more than 150 years demonstrate that Brazil has developed an effective model of integrative health care. The author spent half of each year, 2001-2012, in Brazil studying these centers and hospitals. She is a psychologist, teacher, prolific author and pioneer in the area of healing and spiritual awakening. She suggests that importing components of Brazil's Spiritist Centers could help us improve our ailing healthcare system.

Psychosis and Spirituality

Author : Isabel Clarke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470970294
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Psychosis and Spirituality written by Isabel Clarke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latest research to present an original and unique exploration of the psychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from a broad range of distinguished contributors. This new edition covers the most recent body of research, both qualitative and quantitative, in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality, and investigation into anomalous experiences Ten new chapters added and the remaining text completely updated New to this edition is an expanded clinical section, relevant to clinicians working with psychosis Offers a fundamental rethink of the concept of psychosis, and proposes new insights into spirituality Includes feature chapters from a distinguished list of contributors across a broad range of disciplines, including Peter Fenwick, Peter Chadwick, David Kingdon, Gordon Claridge, Neil Douglas Klotz and David Lukoff

Spirit & Mind

Author : Helene Basu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643907079
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Spirit & Mind written by Helene Basu and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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]

Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism

Author : Helmar Kurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032637150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism written by Helmar Kurz and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients' health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people in- and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the aesthetics of healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly. Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use"--

A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456610058
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems written by Emma Bragdon and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more people practice meditation, yoga, and participate in workshops for personal transformation, increasing numbers of them are having experiences related to spiritual awakening. The problem is they don't know the territory. An intense spiritual experience can seem overwhelming and scary and even be confused with going crazy. This practical book is the classic text, newly updated in 2006 (3rd edition), defining the problems that can arise when someone is disoriented by intense spiritual experiences. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in spiritual experiences and their relationship to mental health and mental illness. It distinguishes the differences between various mental pathologies and indicators of spiritual awakening. It clearly describes the kind of care one needs in a spiritual emergency process and how the care is dramatically different than conventional psychiatric treatment. It traces the history of how signs of spiritual awakening have been perceived in the past. Graduate schools of psychology use this book as a text because it is such a clear statement about the nature of spiritual crises and appropriate treatment. However, it is written in a style that is also appropriate for any adult reader. The author, a transpersonal psychologist, has written five other books on spiritual healing and awakening. The title of the first edition of this book was "A Sourcebook for Helping People in Spiritual Emergency" and was published in 1988.

Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author : John R. Peteet
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 0890426589
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis written by John R. Peteet and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for DSM-V gathers for the first time the collective contributions of the prominent clinicians and researchers who participated in the 2006 Corresponding Committee on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association.

Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality

Author : Lynne Vanderpot
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784503916
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatric Medication and Spirituality written by Lynne Vanderpot and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging an exclusively medical approach to mental health and illness, this book considers the impact psychiatric drugs can have on spirituality. In the last thirty years, a dramatic rise in medication as a treatment for mental illness has occurred in tandem with increasing numbers of people entering treatment with a spiritually-oriented understanding of their suffering. The unforeseen result is that some people taking psychiatric drugs are engaging with them in ways that can have a profound impact on the course and outcome of treatment. Based on interviews with people on psychiatric medication who regard spirituality as significant in their lives, this book reveals how medication can be perceived as both helpful and harmful to spirituality. The author argues that spirituality must be considered in debates around psychopharmacology.

Resources for Extraordinary Healing

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : Emma Bragdon
ISBN 13 : 9781466340831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Resources for Extraordinary Healing written by Emma Bragdon and published by Emma Bragdon. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen million Americans (5% of our population) are crippled by serious mental illness. The numbers of mentally-disabled needing supplemental income is now 6 times what it was in 1955.After a brief assessment of our profound problems in treating mental illness, the book reveals a new, more effective and less costly paradigm to diagnose and treat the causes of emotional disturbance that has been developing in Brazil. Through compelling, engaging stories of real people, it spells out this new form of integrative mental health care that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of mental illness. It describes the new forms of diagnostics and treatment in which conventional medical doctors collaborate with spiritual healers. The stories and descriptions colorfully and definitively illustrate a practical, cost-effective system, tested and developed for more than eighty years in Brazil, that can lead patients to mental health.Resources in the USA that are similar to the model of care available in Brazil are clearly described along with contact information. All information and recommendations for further learning are well organized, making this book an excellent guide and an inspiring reference for individuals wanting to recover from emotional disturbances, their families, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, healthcare providers and students of healthcare.

Companions in the Darkness

Author : Diana Gruver
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830853383
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Companions in the Darkness written by Diana Gruver and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church's relationship with depression has been fraught: for centuries, depression was assumed to be evidence of personal sin or even demonic influence. The depressed have often been ostracized or institutionalized. In recent years the conversation has begun to change, and the stigma has lessened—but as anyone who suffers from depression knows, we still have a long way to go. In Companions in the Darkness, Diana Gruver looks back into church history and finds depression in the lives of some of our most beloved saints, including Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. Without trying to diagnose these figures from a distance, Gruver tells their stories in fresh ways, taking from each a particular lesson that can encourage or guide those who suffer today. Drawing on her own experience with depression, Gruver offers a wealth of practical wisdom both for those in the darkness and those who care for them. Not only can these saints teach us valuable lessons about the experience of depression, they can also be a source of hope and empathy for us today. They can be our companions in the darkness.

The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism

Author : Anne Kalvig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317017595
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism written by Anne Kalvig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However, practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book analyses the practices of today’s mediums, who insist on standing at the threshold between life and death, interpreting signs and passing on communications, and asks how such concepts and practices are perceived by contemporary society. Using first-hand material gathered from alternative fairs, mediumistic congresses, séances, and interviews with both practitioners and clients, as well as thorough textual analysis, Anne Kalvig provides a clear overview of the various forms of consumption of mediumship in Western society and places these within a socio-cultural, religious and historical context. She also raises questions as to the controversies surrounding spiritualism and its representation and relationship with popular culture and the media. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sociology, religious studies, folklore, media studies and anthropology as well as to anyone interested in the upsurge of contemporary spiritualism, psychic phenomena and the paranormal.

Extraordinary Conditions

Author : Janis H. Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0520287118
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Conditions written by Janis H. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher.

Reflexive Religion: The New Age in Brazil and Beyond

Author : Anthony D'Andrea
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380116
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Religion: The New Age in Brazil and Beyond written by Anthony D'Andrea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflexive Religion examines the rise of alternative spiritualities of the self in contemporary Brazil. Combining late modern theory and multi-site ethnographies of the New Age, it explains how religion is being transformed under globalization, reflexivity and individualism processes.