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Spiritual Issues in Therapy

Relating Experience to Practice

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • William West
    Pages 1-12
  3. The Context

    • William West
    Pages 13-23
  4. Psychotherapists as Shaman

    • William West
    Pages 24-41
  5. The Personal Encounter with Spirituality

    • William West
    Pages 42-54
  6. Making Sense of the Territory

    • William West
    Pages 55-77
  7. The Clients’ Story

    • William West
    Pages 78-98
  8. Relevant Issues

    • William West
    Pages 99-114
  9. Researching Spirituality and Therapy

    • William West
    Pages 115-141
  10. Soul Attending

    • William West
    Pages 142-153
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 154-177

About this book

The important and engaging book encourages counsellors, psychotherapists, pastoral care workers and others involved in the helping professions to consider the significance of spirituality and spiritual experiences both for their clients and for the practice of therapy.

Drawing on the author's wide experience of researching, teaching and practicing therapy and spirituality within therapeutic, healing, religious and educational settings, it addresses:
- the challenge of being present to our clients' spirituality and spiritual issues
- making sense of psychospiritual therapeutic practice
- cross-cultural work including learning from traditional healing
- how to research therapy and spirituality
- the implications of this emerging way of working with clients which the author refers to as 'soul attending'

Students and practitioners will find this book both thought-provoking and inspiring, but ultimately highly practical and as such an essential practice companion.

About the author

WILLIAM WEST is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Studies and Director of Counselling Courses at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has written extensively on therapy and spirituality, qualitative research, supervision, humanistic therapy and culture.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spiritual Issues in Therapy

  • Book Subtitle: Relating Experience to Practice

  • Authors: William West

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-00097-1

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 192

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology