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The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook

Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders

• By Gurucharan S. Khalsa, Sharon G. Mijares

• Price: $34.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 402
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 28th June 2005
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-2324-7

About the Book

Learn to treat a variety of diagnostic disorders through various psychospiritual treatment models!

Increasing numbers of people are moving beyond psychological therapy to seek alternative spiritual perspectives to medical and mental health care such as yoga and meditation. The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders provides the latest theoretical perspectives and practical applications by recognized experts in positive and integrative psychotherapy. Leading clinicians examine and re-examine their therapeutic worldviews and attitudes to focus on the right problems to solve—for the whole person.

This essential handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now sweeping the field of psychology, that of locating the whole human being in the center of the therapeutic process. The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders helps you effectively treat the whole person by providing a practical introduction to some of the worldviews and most effective practices like yoga, meditation, and humanological therapy used by psychospiritually oriented therapists. Helpful illustrations of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs, tables, figures, and detailed case studies illustrate the process.

The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders will show you:

• the importance of a therapist’s worldview for effective therapeutic outcome
  
• new perspectives on alternative treatments for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, and sexual dysfunction
  
• how yoga and mindfulness meditation can be used in psychotherapy
  
• the use and integration of meditation therapies in emergency situations
  
• the therapeutic integration of other alternative treatments, such as Kundalini yoga
  
• each contributor’s case studies as illustration of effective treatment
  

The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders is an invaluable resource for those interested in treating patients with a therapeutic process that is effective, adaptable, and wholly transformational.

Table of Contents

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (Thomas Moore)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction (Sharon G. Mijares and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa)
  
• Rising Demand for Research in Integrative Psychospiritual Therapy
  
• Historical Movements Toward a Model of Psychospirituality
  
• Authors in This Collection
  
• Chapter 1. Approaching Extraordinary Experiences in the Mental Health Field (John E. Mack)
  
• Chapter 2. Seasons of Change: Adjustment Disorders As Summons to New Life Structure (Dwight H. Judy)
  
• Chapter 3. Breathing into Fear: Psychospiritual Approaches for Treating Anxiety (Selene Vega)
  
• Chapter 4. Sacred Wounding: Traumatic Openings to the Larger Self (Sharon G. Mijares)
  
• Chapter 5. Eating Disorders As Messengers from the Soul (Anita Johnston and Kyrai Antares)
  
• Chapter 6. Getting Focused in an Age of Distraction: Approaches to Attentional Disorders Using the Humanology of Yogi Bhajan (Gurucharan Singh Khalsa)
  
• Chapter 7. Dissociative Identity Disorder and Psychospiritual Perspectives (Colin A. Ross)
  
• Chapter 8. Alternative Treatments for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders (Manjit Kaur Khalsa)
  
• Chapter 9. Assessment and Treatment of Conduct Disorders: A Moral Reasoning Model and Psychospiritual Approach (Celia A. Drake and Deborah Lewis)
  
• Chapter 10. Bipolar Disorder and Western Anosognosia (Jeffrey Rediger)
  
• Chapter 11. Spiritual and Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotic Disorders (David Lukoff)
  
• Chapter 12. Journey into the Heart: Sufi Ways for Healing Depression (Arife Ellen Hammerle)
  
• Chapter 13. Mindful Awareness and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Integrating Psychospiritual and Biological Approaches to Mental Health with a Focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Elizabeth Z. Gulliford, Jessica Stier, and Margo Thienemann)
  
• Chapter 14. Spirituality and Sexuality: Celebrating Erotic Transcendence and Spiritual Embodiment (Peggy J. Kleinplatz and Stanley Krippner)
  
• Chapter 15. An Integrative Medical Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease (Dharma Singh Khalsa)
  
• Chapter 16. The Phenomenon of Centers Supporting Spiritual Approaches to Psychotherapy (Henry Grayson and Bruce Kerievsky)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included