Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Publications Archive

The archive consists of publications from two sources: papers of interest written by members of the Special Interest Group and papers published in the Spirituality SIG Newsletter, including guest contributions. Members of the SIG who would like to submit papers should send them as Word or rtf. file attachments, marked For the Attention of Dr. Andrew Powell, to rcpsych@rcpsych.ac.uk.

Publication is at the discretion of the editor and Executive. If publication requires editorial changes, the author will be advised of this. Copyright will be to the author unless otherwise specified and it is the responsibility of the author to ensure there is no infringement of copyright. References should be Vancouver style (numbered in the text) and listed in full at the end of the paper. Biographical information on the members of the SIG will not be included, as the Website is in the public domain.

We hope you will enjoy browsing through the papers published here. The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group does not represent College policy. It has been established as a forum for discussion in which a wide range of ideas can be expressed and valued, as much for their diversity as what they have in common. The aim of this archive is to inform, encourage and, sometimes, we hope, to inspire.

Dr. Andrew Powell (editor).

Dr. Gwen Adshead

• Capacities and dispositions: reflections on Good and Evil from a forensic psychiatrist

Professor David Aldridge

• Songs at the end of life

Dr. Jenny Barraclough

• Integrated cancer care

• Those twin levers that move the world: sexual and religious behaviour

Sue Brayne and Dr. Peter Fenwick

• Nearing the end of life: a guide for relatives and friends of the dying

Dr. Craig Brown

• Low morale and burnout; is the solution to teach a values-based spiritual approach?

• Beyond suffering

Dr. Kishore Chandiramani

• Vipassana meditation
• A role for mindfulness meditation in the treatment of sexual addictions 

Dr. Isabel Clarke

• Psychosis and spirituality: the journey of an idea

• "May your God go with you!" Spiritual themes and issues in a general psychiatric setting
• Stirring the dormant phoenix - reflections on suicide and spirituality
• The snake and the chalice
  

Professor C C H Cook

• The concept of spirituality as understood and applied in addictions research and treatment
• The faith of the psychiatrist
  

Professor Peter Conradi

• Calm-abiding meditation and the ox-herding pictures

Dr. Nigel Copsey

• Spiritual and cultural care in east London

Dr. Nicki Crowley

• Introduction to conference Beyond Death: Does Consciousness Survive? 
• Holotropic breathwork: healing through a non-ordinary state of consciousness
• Psychosis or spiritual emergence?
• Psychotic episode or spiritual emergency - the transformative potential of psychosis in recovery

Dr. Larry Culliford

• Healing from within: spirituality and mental health
• Healing from within: A guide for assessing the religious and spiritual aspects of people's lives
• Psychiatry - a labour of love? (a journey in search of no-Self)
• Love, healing and happiness: in search of the flipside of suffering

• Healing and the healing relationship

Dr. Simon Dein and Professor Roland Littlewood

• The voice of God

Dr. Simon Dein

• The Faith of Patients

Dr. Jack Dominion

• Forgiveness and reconciliation

Dr. Sarah Eagger

• Love in the time of old age
• A guide to the assessment of spiritual concerns in mental healthcare
• Learning Values in Healthcare
• Meditation workshops at the College Annual Meeting

Dr. John Edmondson

• Existence and atheism (or amor ergo sum)

Professor Philip van der Eijk

• Body and spirit in Greek medicine and philosophy

Dr. Haraldur Erlendsson

• Multiple personality disorder - demons and angels or archetypal aspects of the inner self

Dr. Peter Fenwick

• Dying: a spiritual experience as shown by Near Death Experiences and deathbed visions'
• Scientific evidence for the efficacy of prayer
• Wider human consciousness as shown by death and dying

Professor David Fontana

• The nature of a possible afterlife

Cristina Gangemi

• Supporting people with learning disabilities through a time of bereavement and loss  

Professor Gerrit Glas

• Psychiatry and religion: current debates and their challenge to psychiatry

Professor Peter Gilbert

• Spirituality and mental health
• Introduction to spirituality, religion and mental health: a brief evidence resource

Dr. Paramabandhu Groves

• Body and spirit - a Buddhist perspective 
• Spiritual Help: a Buddhist Perspective

Laura Harrison

• Multiple personality disorder; an alternative theory

Julia Head

• 'Please pray for me’: the significance of prayer for mental and emotional well-being
• A rich tapestry: emergent themes in spirituality in the care of older adults with mental health needs

• Recovery and Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services: A Working Model

Patricia Higgins RMN

• The candlelight group: a pilot project for people with dementia

Dr. Chris Holman

• Perverse spirituality

Dr. David Hope

• Spiritual aspects of caring

Professor Pali Hungin

• Sufferers with functional problems

Ms. Susan Irving

• Spirituality, music and psychiatry

Dr. David Jolley and Dr. Susan Benbow

• Spirituality and faith in dementia

Rev. Dr Martin Israel

• Exorcism and deliverance

Dr. Samina Karamat

• Candlelight Group II: brief comments about congregational rituals in dementia care for a multi faith community

Rev. Alison Kennedy

• Spirituality, music and psychiatry

• Lack of Spiritual Practice - an important risk factor for suffering from distress

Dr. Pim van Lommel

• About the continuity of our consciousness

Professor Michael King

• The measurement of religious and spiritual beliefs

Reinhard Kowalski

• MindBalancing - meditation as an evolutionary step
  

• Patient Spirituality and Mental Health: A new focus in clinical care and research part one
• Patient Spirituality and Mental Health: A new focus in clinical care and research part two
• The Patient's Spiritual/Religious Dimension: A forgotten factor in mental health

Dr. Robert Lawrence

• 'God's place' in psychiatry - spirituality in psychiatric education and training

Dr. Robert Lawrence and Dr. Oyepeju Raji

• Introduction to spirituality, health care and mental health

Dr. Chris Mace

• Mindfulness in Psychotherapy: from practice to theory

Revd. Chris MacKenna

• The birth, death, rebirth, and transformation of God
• Sexuality and spirituality - possible conjunctions
  

Dr. Jean-Marc Mantel

• A spiritual psychiatry - challenge or heresy?
• A contemplative approach to psychotherapy
• Letting go of suffering: the path of non-duality 
• Therapy without the therapist

Dr. Michael Marriot

• Personal religious or spiritual beliefs, and the experience of hearing voices, having strong beliefs, or other experiences affecting mental well-being and general functioning

• Spirituality and clinical care in eating disorders: a qualitative study

Dr. John Mathai

• Revelational therapy

Professor Eric Matthews

• Philosophical attitudes to body and spirit

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

• Mindfulness within the structure of CAT

Revd. Adrian McKenna

• In dependent bodies: exploring a Christian understanding of disability

• Religion and Suicide: exploring the role of the church in deaths by suicide in Highland, Scotland

Dr. Sally O'Brien

• Suicide and spirituality

Professor Femi Oyebode

• Forgiveness and reconciliation

Dr. James Pandarakalam

• The spiritualisation of post-traumatic stress disorder
• Parapsychology relevant to spirituality and psychiatry
• The wailing of a helpless soul
• Aspects of religion relevant to psychiatry
• Fatima apparitional experiences
• Garabandal visionary experiences
• An emperor in parapsychology

• Matrix, mind and matter: From the internal to the eternal
• The psychophysical matrix and group analysis
• Ending is for life
• The soul of the newborn child
• Soul consciousness and human suffering: psychotherapeutic approaches to healing
• Beyond space and time - the unbounded psyche
• Quantum psychiatry – where science meets spirit
• The unquiet self and the search for peace
• Spirituality and science: a personal view
• Psychosocial implications of the shadow
• Putting the soul into psychiatry
• Good and Evil - a psychiatrist's perspective
• Mental health and spirituality
• Consciousness that transcends spacetime: its significance for the therapeutic process 
• Psychiatry and spirit release therapy
• Psychiatry and spirituality – the forgotten dimension
• Love and the near-life experience
• Spirituality, healing and the mind
• Death and soul consciousness
• The therapeutic approach of the Spirit Release Foundation to mental health
• Spirituality and later life - a personal perspective
• Why must we suffer? - a psychiatrist reflects
• Spirituality and psychiatry - crossing the divide
• Furthering the spiritual dimension of psychiatry in the UK
• Past life memory - a key to understanding the self
• Soul-centred Psychotherapy 

Dr. Andrew Powell and Revd. Chris MacKenna

• Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Dr. Sunil Raheja

• Examining our spiritual spectacles: dangers and pitfalls

Dr. Oyepeju Raji

• Prayer and medicine, a healthy alliance? A multi-faith, multi-cultural perspective

Dr. Patte Randal and Dr. Nick Argyle

• 'Spiritual Emergency' - a useful explanatory model? a literature review and discussion paper'

Dr. Tim Read

• Non-ordinary states of consciousness and the transpersonal Journey
• The transpersonal model of the psyche
• Seven levels of significance: significance and meaning as an organising principle of consciousness
• Transpersonal psychiatry

Dr. David Reilly

• Psychiatry's part in the fragmented art of human healing
  

Elsa Rossi

• Mediumship and Spiritism

Professor Mohamed Salem 

• Religion, spirituality and psychiatry
• The spiritual support group - Medway Maritime Hospital experience
• Heart, mind and spirit

Dr. Alan Sanderson

• Spirit releasement therapy
• Spirit release therapy: what is it and what can it achieve? A clinical presentation of therapist and patient perspectives
• The case for spirit release

Dr. Ben Sessa

• From sacred plants to psychotherapy

• Meditation as medication

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake

• The extended mind

Dr. Mike Shooter

• Suicide - an occupational hazard

Professor Andrew Sims

• Ups and downs of spirituality in mental health
• Is faith delusion?

• A personal experience of Kundalini

Canon Beaumont Stevenson

• Beyond death: different spiritual perspectives on the outward journey
• When the part takes over the whole: practical, psychological and spiritual aspects of the Ministry of Deliverance

Professor John Swinton

• Does Evil have to exist to be real? The discourse of evil and the practice of mental health care
• Why psychiatry needs spirituality

Dr. Peter Verhagen

• Sanctifying Personhood

Dr. de Wet Vorster

• Engaging the spiritual mind

The Right Revd. Dominic Walker

• Is Evil necessary?

Dr. Helena Waters

• Dru Yoga for transforming emotional pain
  

Dr. Fraser Watts

• Forgiveness: psychological and religious aspects

Dr. Michael Weir and Christine Perry

• Non-ordinary states of consciousness in healing and health: the work and techniques of Stanislav Grof

• Healing with advanced hypnotherapy - a science of spirituality

• Vale of tears or vale of soulmaking

Professor Mark Williams

• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and the prevention of relapse in depression
  

Dr. Roger Woolger

• Beyond death: transition and the after-life