Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group

 

Newsletter No. 27, July 2009

 

Contents:

 

  1. Dr. Andrew Powell: Editor's Note
  2. Professor Chris Cook: From the Chair
  3. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake: The Extended Mind
  4. Dr. Peter Fenwick: Wider human consciousness as shown by Death and Dying
  5. Professor David Fontana: The Nature of a Possible Afterlife
  6. Professor Chris Cook: The Faith of the Psychiatrist
  7. Dr Simon Dein The Faith of Patients
  8. Book Review by Dr Jennifer Barraclough: Is Faith delusion? Why religion is good for your health, by Professor Andrew Sims
  9. Book Review by Dr. Peter Fenwick: Human Immortality; Death and Adjustment Hypotheses Elaborated, by Dr. Mohammad Hossain
  10. Book Review by Prof. Chris Cook: Spirituality and the therapeutic process: a comprehensive resource from intake to termination, edited by J.D. Aten and M.M. Leach
  11. Book Review by Dr. Jameel Hussein: Disturbed by Mind and Spirit, by Gavin and Joanna Knight
  12. Announcement: Publication of ‘Spirituality and Psychiatry’ RCPsych Publications 2009

 

 

Next meeting for SIG members:

 

One-day programme ‘Spirituality and Religion – Friends or Foes?’ November 20 2009

 

Notice of other meetings:

 

Beyond the Brain VIII. Self and Death – What Survives? Scientific and Medical Network in association with Spirituality SIG August 21 - 23 2009 Canterbury

 

Transpersonal Psychology Section, British Psychological Society, 13th Annual Conference, 18-21 September, Scarborough

 

C.G.Jung, Goethe and the Politics of the Spirit: with Dr. Roger Woolger. Conference - 10 October 2009 London

 

Spirituality and Health Care Conference, University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine, 3 November 2009

 

2nd British Congress on Medicine and Spirituality. Conference - 7/8 November 2009, Stratford, London

 

 

 

 

 
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