Publications Archive

Dr Gwen Adshead

• Capacities and dispositions: reflections on Good and Evil from a forensic psychiatrist
• Christ plays in 10000 places
• Their dark materials: narratives and recovery in forensic practice

Professor David Aldridge

• Songs at the end of life

Dr Jo Barber

• Lived experience of stigma and recovery

Mgr Keith Barltrop

• Catholic and gay - a stigma?

Dr Jenny Barraclough

• Integrated cancer care

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden

• Buddhism, Psychiatry and Chronic Disease: The Role of Mindfulness in Modern Medicine

Revd Dr Thaddeus Birchard

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

Liz Bird & Mike Kavanagh

• Identity Change, Spirituality and Desistance from Crime

The Revd Beatrice Brandon

• Symptoms of spiritual crisis and the therapeusis of healing

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?

• Culture, Kinship and Intelligent Kindness

• Intolerant secularism and its impact on modern Britain

Professor Patricia Casey

• Religion and Spirituality: a necessary distinction?
• Spirituality and religion in psychiatry: an introduction to the research evidence

• Beyond suffering

Dr Isabel Clarke

• Psychosis and spirituality: the journey of an idea
• Transcendence and the Transliminal
• Schizotypy and the experience of transliminal phenomena

Dr Cherrie Coghlan

• "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

Dr Alasdair Coles

• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Dostoyevsky Seizures

Professor C C H Cook

• The concept of spirituality as understood and applied in addictions research and treatment
• The faith of the psychiatrist
• How Spirituality is Relevant to Mental Healthcare and Ethical Concerns
• Transcendence, Immanence, and Mental Health
• Hallucinations and Spiritual Experience: Voices, Visions and Revelation
• Hearing Voices in the Christian Mystical Tradition

Professor Peter Conradi

• Calm-abiding meditation and the ox-herding pictures

Dr Nigel Copsey

• Spiritual and cultural care in east London

Elizabeth Cosgrove

• Religious devotion: a risk factor for mental illness? Examining the link between religiosity and obsessive-compulsive disorder

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

Professor Douglas J Davies

• Spirituality, cultural wisdom and salvation

Dr Simon Dein and Professor Roland Littlewood

• The voice of God

Dr Simon Dein

• The Faith of Patients
• Kabbalistic Healing
• Religion and Mental Health: Current Findings
• Recent Advances in Neurotheology

Dr Kalpana Dein

• Psychopathy: evil or disease?

Dr Quinton Deely

• Cognitive Style, Spirituality, and Religious Understanding: The Case of Autism

Dr Jack Dominion

• Forgiveness and reconciliation

• 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
• Implementing spiritual assessment

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

• 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
• The neuroscience of spirituality
• Perceptions of Beyond in the Near Death Experience and at the end of life

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 Alison Gray

• Stigma and stigmata

Dr Paramabandhu Groves

• Body and spirit - a Buddhist perspective
• Spiritual Help: a Buddhist Perspective
• Kindness Behaviour Training
• Mindfulness Contextualised. The Buddhist tradition

Dr Nick Hallett

• Why Spirituality Matters in Psychiatry

Dr Tim Hardie, Dr Najat Khalifa & Professor Mohammad S I Mullick

• Jinn and psychiatry: comparison of beliefs among Muslims in Dhaka and Leicester

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
• The Spirituality of Compassion

Professor Paul Heelas

• Neither Transcendent nor Immanent: Life Force Psychiatry

Patricia Higgins

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

Neville Hodgkinson

• Good News. You Are Not Your Brain!

Dr Chris Holman

• Perverse spirituality

Dr David Hope

• Spiritual aspects of caring

Professor Pali Hungin

• Sufferers with functional problems

Dr Chris Irons

• Compassion: revolutionary understandings and the development of Compassion Focused Therapy

Susan Irving

• The Place of Spirituality in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

Revd Dr Martin Israel

• Exorcism and deliverance

Dr David Jolley and Dr Susan Benbow

• Spirituality and faith in dementia

Dr Chetna Kang

• Hinduism and Mental health

Dr Samina Karamat

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

Revd Alison Kennedy

• Spirituality, music and psychiatry

Dr Peter Kevern

• Dementia and Spirituality

Roxanne Keynejad

• Spirituality and Mental Health. Focus Groups in a London Borough

Professor Michael King

• The measurement of religious and spiritual beliefs

Dr Niko Kohls and Professor Harald Walach

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

Reinhard Kowalski

• MindBalancing - meditation as an evolutionary step

Revd Ros Lane

• Living with and creating a spirituality of loss in a forensic context

Professor David Larson

• 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

Professor Kate Loewenthal

• Spirituality and Religion: friends or foes?
• Spirit possession: Jews don’t do that, do they?
• Anti-Semitism and its mental health effects

Dr Pim van Lommel

• About the continuity of our consciousness

Dr Chris Mace

• Mindfulness in Psychotherapy: from practice to theory

Dr David MacDonald

• The role of the psychiatric advisor to the ministry of deliverance

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

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

Dr Su Mason

• Spiritual Healing: What is it? Does it work and does it have a place in modern healthcare?

Dr John Mathai

• Revelational therapy

Professor Eric Matthews

• Philosophical attitudes to body and spirit

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

• Mindfulness within the structure of CAT

Dr Iain McGilchrist

• Can the divided brain tell us anything about the ultimate nature of reality?

Dr Calum Miller

• A case for informing patients of the mental health benefits of religion

• Spiritual aspects of psychosis and recovery

Bishop Richard Moth

• Listen Carefully and Attend with the Ear of your Heart

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

Dr Mary Murray and Josefine Speyer

• Psycho-spiritual transformation through bereavement

Dr Saliha Nazir

• What proportion of psychiatrists take a spiritual history?

Dr Sally O'Brien

• Suicide and spirituality

• Forgiveness and reconciliation

Jayne Ozanne

• Spiritual abuse: the next great scandal for the Church

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
• A search for the truth of past life regression
• The biblical reincarnation
• New horizons in consciousness studies
• Beyond the quantum mind
• Spirituality and occupational hazards of psychiatry
• A search for the truth of Near Death Experiences
• Marian apparitions and discarnate existence

Alexandra Pittock

• How are anorexia and spirituality connected, and what implications does this have for treatment?

Professor Rob Poole

• Secularism as a professional boundary in psychiatry

• The soul of the newborn child 
• Soul consciousness and human suffering: psychotherapeutic approaches to healing
• Beyond space and time - the unbounded psyche
• 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 space-time: its significance for the therapeutic process 
• Psychiatry and spirit release therapy
• Varieties of love and the near-life experience
• Spirituality, healing and the mind
• Death and soul consciousness
• Spirituality and later life - a personal perspective
• The contribution of spirit release therapy to mental health 
• Why must we suffer? a psychiatrist reflects
• Spirituality and psychiatry - crossing the divide
• Whither the soul of psychiatry? 
• Past life memory - a key to understanding the self?
• Soul-centred psychotherapy 
• Healing and the wounded psyche
• Open heart, open mind: conversing with the soul
• Recovery and well-being: the search for the soul
• Vocation under duress  
• The whole patient
• What does it mean to be human?
• The place of medicine in today's world
• Technology and soul in the 21st Century
• Modernity and the beleaguered soul
• Helping patients tell their story: narratives of body, mind and soul 
• Prejudice - can we live without it?  

Dr Andrew Powell and Revd Chris MacKenna

• Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Dr Elizabeth Procter

• The spiritual and religious beliefs of adolescents

• 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 Russell Razzaque

• Mindfulness in mental health; a clinician's journey

   

Dr Tim Read

• The transpersonal model of the psyche
• Transpersonal psychiatry
• Archetype 2012 and our global mid-life crisis

Dr David Reilly

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

Elsa Rossi

• Mediumship and Spiritism

Dr Tamara Russell

• Mindfulness and Compassion - from a Neuroscience point of view
• Mindfulness: In Mind? In Brain?

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
• The third transformation
• The treatment of patients with delusional states
• The significance of hallucinations in dissociative identity disorder

Dr Ben Sessa

• From sacred plants to psychotherapy

Canon Andrew Shanks

• Hegel and religious faith

• Meditation as medication

Gunjan Sharma

• Losing the Soul

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?
• Religious delusions

• A personal experience of Kundalini

Dr Maya Spencer

• What is spirituality?

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
• Healing by paradox in the Christian tradition 

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

• Intolerance or Ignorance?

• Transcendence and the Psychotherapeutic Quest for Happiness

Dr Peter Verhagen

• Sanctifying Personhood

Dr de Wet Vorster

• Engaging the spiritual mind

The Right Revd. Dominic Walker

• Is Evil necessary?

Revd Paul Walker

• Spiritual Care, Giving and Receiving

• 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

Martin Wells

• Kindness: a Natural Condition

• Healing with advanced hypnotherapy - a science of spirituality

• Vale of tears or vale of soulmaking

Andrea Williams

• Intolerant secularisation

Professor Mark Williams

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

Dr Roger Woolger

• Beyond death: transition and the after-life

Dr Athar Yawar

• Healing in the Sufi tradition