Spirituality And Psychiatry Special Interest Group Newsletter No. 18, June 2005

Contents

  1. Dr. Andrew Powell: Editor's note  
  2. Dr. Julian Candy: Report on 'Healing from Within and Beyond: the therapeutic power of altered states'  
  3. Dr. Nicola Crowley: 'Holotropic Breathwork: Healing through a non-ordinary state of consciousness'  
  4. Professor Peter Conradi: 'Calm-abiding meditation and the Ox-herding pictures'  
  5. Professor David Aldridge: 'Songs at the end of life'  
  6. Dr. R. Lawrence and Dr. O. Raji: 'Introduction to Spirituality, Health Care and Mental Health'
  7. Peter Wilkin: 'Vale of Tears or Vale of Soulmaking'
  8. Dr. Larry Culliford: 'Healing from Within: Spirituality and Mental Health'  
  9. Dr. Cherrie Coghlan: two poems 'Dreams and Wonders' and 'Revolution'  
  10. Michael Levy: poem 'Live Alchemy'  
  11. Dawn Redwood: 'The Harry Edwards Spiritual Healing Sanctuary'  

  12. Future meetings for SIG members

  13. One-day programme October 21 2005: 'Special needs, special gifts - learning disability and spirituality'  
  14. Joint one-day programme with Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry: 'Spirituality and Religion in Later Life'  

  15. Other meetings

  16. Conference - 'Beyond the Brain VI - Memory Beyond the Brain'. August 26 - 28 2005 University of Lincoln. The Scientific and Medical Network in association with the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group  
  17. Conference 'Ways of Knowing: Reuniting the Sacred and Science': University College Winchester, September 2 - 4 2005  
  18. Workshop with Harold Koenig: 'Religion, Spirituality and Health', September 12 -16 2005 Switzerland (Langenthal)  
  19. Conference - 'Holistic Psychology In Practice'. British Psychological Society Holistic Psychology Special Interest Group, September 22 and 23 2005  
  20. Conference '- Self / No-Self: Continuing the Dialogue Between Buddhism and Psychotherapy'. May 16 -19 2006 Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan  
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