Spirituality and Psychiatry
Edited by Chris Cook, Andrew Powell and Andrew Sims
Spirituality is a crucial but sometimes overlooked aspect of
mental well-being and psychiatric care. This book explores the
nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the
reasons for its importance in clinical practice.
In this evidence-based text, the authors
discuss the prevention and management of illness, as well as the
maintenance of recovery. Different chapters focus on the key
subspecialties of psychiatry, including psychotherapy, child and
adolescent psychiatry, intellectual disability psychiatry,
substance misuse psychiatry and old age psychiatry. It contains
references to up-to-date research and provides a comprehensive
review of the relevant academic literature. The book is, at least
in part, a response to the questions posed by researchers, service
users and clinicians, concerning the importance of spirituality in
mental healthcare.
Contributors include psychiatrists,
psychotherapists, mental healthcare chaplains and a social worker.
They discuss aspects of experience often omitted from psychiatry
and present both clinician and service user perspectives.
Readership
The book will be of wide interest to
psychiatrists, psychiatry trainees and all mental health
professionals.
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Book-signing session held
to launch the book at the Annual Meeting 2009, Liverpool
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About the editors
Chris Cook: Professorial
Research Fellow, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham
University, and Consultant in Substance Misuse, Tees, Esk &
Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
Andrew Powell: formerly
Consultant Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, St
George’s Hospital and University of London; and Consultant
Psychotherapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, the Warneford
Hospital and University of Oxford.
Andrew Sims: former President
of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Emeritus Professor of
Psychiatry, University of Leeds.
Each of the editors has in the past served as
Chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of
the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Quote from the editors
"Our guiding principle has been that
spirituality in psychiatry, far from being an optional extra, is a
necessary foundation for good clinical practice."
Contents
1. Spirituality in psychiatry - Andrew
Sims and Christopher C. H. Cook
2. Assessing spiritual needs - Larry
Culliford and Sarah Eagger
3. Psychosis - Susan Mitchell and Glenn
Roberts
4. Suicide - Cherrie Coghlan and Imran
Ali
5. Child and adolescent psychiatry - Mike
Shooter
6. Psychotherapy - Andrew Powell and
Christopher MacKenna
7. Intellectual disability - Oyepeju
Raji
8. Substance misuse - Christopher C. H.
Cook
9. Neuroscience of the spirit - Peter
Fenwick
10. Spiritual care in the NHS - Sarah
Eagger, Peter Richmond and Peter Gilbert
11. The transpersonal perspective - Tim
Read and Nicki Crowley
12. Religion and religious experiences -
Mohamed Omar Salem and John Foskett
13. Pathological spirituality - Nicki
Crowley and Gillie Jenkinson
14. Ageing - Robert M. Lawrence and Julia
H. Head