Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy / Edition 1

by Dennis Lines

Overview

Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy explores the idea that throughout the course of a therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, a spiritual level is reached by the two people involved. The author shows how this dimension can help clients who are living in an increasingly secular and faithless society to find some resolution with the issues they bring to therapy. By exploring different perspectives on religion and spirituality, the book provides therapists with the grounding they need to introduce spiritually-centered counseling into their practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412919562
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/21/2006
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dennis Lines is a school counsellor.

Table of Contents

The Enlightened Mind
The Spiritual Revolution
Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Indications for Spiritually-Centred Counselling
The Spiritually-Centred Counsellor
The Process of Spiritual Healing
The Spiritual Journey
Obstacles along the Path
Religious and Spiritual Techniques in Therapy
Closure in Spiritual Therapy

Editorial Reviews

‘[Spirituality] has been traditionally 'taboo' within the counselling and psychotherapy profession. Denis Lines comes into this controversial scene with a rigorous-but-gentle, mystical-but-grounded, inspiring and thought-provoking voice…. The book is well written and presents the model in the context of other therapeutic modalities, which makes it interesting and useful for therapists from different backgrounds and practice settings. It could also be of use for those involved in religious education, pastoral care or anybody interested in the spiritual development of the self or the existential quest of humankind' - Therapy Today

'This gentle, mystical, empirical and scholarly book is truly inspirational and it deserves the widest possible readership among therapists, religious educators and all those who care about the spiritual destiny of humankind' - Professor Brian Thorne, Co-founder The Norwich Centre and Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia

‘Fascinating. There is much here that is controversial, thought provoking and very useful. It is encyclopaedic in its breadth and use of knowledge. [Like] rich food [it] needs to be taken in slowly, savouring every morsel!' - Thresholds

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