A Resource List for the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Organisations

British Association for Spirit Release
2 Caroline Close, London W2 4RW

http://www.spiritrelease.com/

Chaired by Dr Alan Sanderson, psychiatrist, BASR brings together doctors, healers and complementary health care practitioners interested in clinical disorders arising from spirit attachment and the treatment thereof by spirit release therapy. BASR holds regular meetings, publishers a newsletter and runs twice yearly a foundation course.

 

Institute for Noetic Sciences
101 San Antonio Road, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA

http://www.noetic.org/

USA based with British members. It describes itself as ‘a global wisdom society in which consciousness, spirituality and love are at the center of life. Its purpose is ‘to explore consciousness for a world awakening through frontier science, personal inquiry and learning communities’.

 

International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality
6110 Executive Boulevard, Suite 908, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA

Previously the National Institute of Health Care Research. Headed by Professor David Larson, it fosters multi-disciplinary collaboration between educators and clinicians. It has established the leading database on research into mental health and spirituality.

 

John Templeton Foundation
PO Box 8322, Radnor, PA 19087, USA

http://www.templeton.org/

Philanthropist Sir John Templeton intends ‘to encourage a fresh appreciation of the critical importance for all peoples and cultures of the moral and spiritual dimensions of life’. His Foundation currently funds over 150 projects, many in the sphere of science and religion and their convergence.

 

Scientific and Medical Network
PO Box 11, Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0SF

http://www.scimednet.org/

It ‘aims to deepen understanding in science, medicine and education by fostering both rational analysis and intuitive insights. It questions the assumptions of contemporary scientific and medical thinking, so often limited by exclusively materialistic reasoning’. UK based, with international membership.

 

Society for Scientific Exploration
Allen Press, 810 East 10th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA

http://www.scientificexploration.org/

Free associateship if you take their journal (see journals), when you receive a membership list that contains many British members.

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