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
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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."
"This is an exceptional book..of
interest to the specialist as well as the more general reader
wishing to get an informed overview of the field of Spirituality
and Mental Health. The chapters are very well written and
draw the reader in with both evocative case material...as well as
historical material. The editors and the authors of this
volume have done a successful job in presenting spirituality in its
many guises and key, often undervalued, role in mental health
services. Highly recommended!"
Newsletter of the Bishop John
Robinson Fellowship in Pastoral Care and Mental Health
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