Spirituality and Psychiatry
Special Interest Group
Newsletter No. 28, December
2009
Contents:
1. Dr. Andrew Powell:
Editor’s note
2. Professor Chris Cook:
From the Chair
3. Professor
Kate Loewenthal: Spirituality and religion: friends or foes? Views
from the orthodox Jewish Community
4. Professor Patricia
Casey: Religion and Spirituality: A Necessary Distinction?
5. Professor
Douglas J. Davies: Spirituality, Cultural Wisdom and
Salvation
6. Dr.
Andrew Powell: Soul-centred Psychotherapy
7. Dr. Julian
Candy: Report on Beyond the Brain VIII: Self and Death – What
Survives?
8. Professor Chris Cook:
Report on Faculty of General and Community Psychiatry Conference
Cardiff, 15/16 October 2009
9. Dr.
Mohammad Samir Hossain: Facing the finality – Death
and Adjustment
Hypotheses
Next meeting for SIG members:
One-day
programme Friday 16 April 2010 ‘Spiritual and Religious Healing:
Implications for Mental Healthcare’ SCI, 15 Belgrave Square,
SW1X 8PS
Notice of other meetings:
Mind and
Soul Conference 'The Beautiful Mind?' 26 March 2010 London
The
British Association for the Study of Spirituality. ‘Spirituality in
a Changing World’ Conference, 4 – 6 May 2010 London
The
Scientific and Medical Network 'Body and Beyond II - Mind as
Healer, Mind as Destroyer' Conference 27 - 29 August
Chesham
Conference on Spirituality,
Theology and Mental Health, Durham University, 13 - 16 September
2010