Publications Archive

Dr Gwen Adshead

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

Professor David Aldridge

• Songs at the end of life (PDF)

Dr Jo Barber

• Lived experience of stigma and recovery (PDF)

Mgr Keith Barltrop

• Catholic and gay - a stigma? (PDF)

Dr Jenny Barraclough

• Integrated cancer care (PDF)

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden

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

Revd Dr Thaddeus Birchard

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

Liz Bird & Mike Kavanagh

• Identity Change, Spirituality and Desistance from Crime (PDF)

The Revd Beatrice Brandon

• Symptoms of spiritual crisis and the therapeusis of healing (PDF)

Sue Brayne and Dr. Peter Fenwick

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

Dr Craig Brown

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

• Culture, Kinship and Intelligent Kindness (PDF)

• Intolerant secularism and its impact on modern Britain (PDF)

Professor Patricia Casey

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

• Beyond suffering (PDF)

Dr Isabel Clarke

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

Dr Cherrie Coghlan

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

Dr Alasdair Coles

• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Dostoyevsky Seizures (PDF)

Professor C C H Cook

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

Professor Peter Conradi

• Calm-abiding meditation and the ox-herding pictures (PDF)

Dr Nigel Copsey

• Spiritual and cultural care in east London (PDF)

Elizabeth Cosgrove

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

Dr Nicki Crowley

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

Dr Larry Culliford

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

• Healing and the healing relationship (PDF)

Professor Douglas J Davies

• Spirituality, cultural wisdom and salvation (PDF)

Dr Simon Dein and Professor Roland Littlewood

• The voice of God (PDF)

Dr Simon Dein

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

Dr Kalpana Dein

• Psychopathy: evil or disease? (PDF)

Dr Quinton Deely

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

Dr Jack Dominion

• Forgiveness and reconciliation (PDF)

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

Dr John Edmondson

• Existence and atheism (or amor ergo sum) (PDF)

Professor Philip van der Eijk

• Body and spirit in Greek medicine and philosophy (PDF)

Dr Haraldur Erlendsson

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

• Dying: a spiritual experience as shown by Near Death Experiences and deathbed visions' (PDF)
• Scientific evidence for the efficacy of prayer (PDF)
• Wider human consciousness as shown by death and dying (PDF)
• The neuroscience of spirituality (PDF)
• Perceptions of Beyond in the Near Death Experience and at the end of life (PDF)

Professor David Fontana

• The nature of a possible afterlife (PDF)

Cristina Gangemi

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

Professor Gerrit Glas

• Psychiatry and religion: current debates and their challenge to psychiatry (PDF)

Professor Peter Gilbert

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

Dr Alison Gray

• Stigma and stigmata (PDF)

Dr Paramabandhu Groves

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

Dr Nick Hallett

• Why Spirituality Matters in Psychiatry (PDF)

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

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

Laura Harrison

• Multiple personality disorder; an alternative theory (PDF)

Julia Head

• 'Please pray for me’: the significance of prayer for mental and emotional well-being (PDF)
• A rich tapestry: emergent themes in spirituality in the care of older adults with mental health needs (PDF)
• Recovery and Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services: A Working Model (PDF)
• The Spirituality of Compassion (PDF)

Professor Paul Heelas

• Neither Transcendent nor Immanent: Life Force Psychiatry (PDF)

Patricia Higgins

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

Neville Hodgkinson

• Good News. You Are Not Your Brain! (PDF)

Dr Chris Holman

• Perverse spirituality (PDF)

Dr David Hope

• Spiritual aspects of caring (PDF)

Professor Pali Hungin

• Sufferers with functional problems (PDF)

Dr Chris Irons

• Compassion: revolutionary understandings and the development of Compassion Focused Therapy (PDF)

Susan Irving

• The Place of Spirituality in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (PDF)

Revd Dr Martin Israel

• Exorcism and deliverance (PDF)

Dr David Jolley and Dr Susan Benbow

• Spirituality and faith in dementia (PDF)

Dr Chetna Kang

• Hinduism and Mental health (PDF)

Dr Samina Karamat

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

Revd Alison Kennedy

• Spirituality, music and psychiatry (PDF)

Dr Peter Kevern

• Dementia and Spirituality (PDF)

Roxanne Keynejad

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

Professor Michael King

• The measurement of religious and spiritual beliefs (PDF)

Dr Niko Kohls and Professor Harald Walach

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

Reinhard Kowalski

• MindBalancing - meditation as an evolutionary step (PDF)

Revd Ros Lane

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

Professor David Larson

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

Dr Robert Lawrence

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

Dr Robert Lawrence and Dr Oyepeju Raji

• Introduction to spirituality, health care and mental health (PDF)

Professor Kate Loewenthal

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

Dr Pim van Lommel

• About the continuity of our consciousness (PDF)

Dr Chris Mace

• Mindfulness in Psychotherapy: from practice to theory (PDF)

Dr David MacDonald

• The role of the psychiatric advisor to the ministry of deliverance (PDF)

Revd Chris MacKenna

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

Dr Jean-Marc Mantel

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

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

Dr Su Mason

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

Dr John Mathai

• Revelational therapy (PDF)

Professor Eric Matthews

• Philosophical attitudes to body and spirit (PDF)

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

• Mindfulness within the structure of CAT (PDF)

Dr Iain McGilchrist

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

Dr Calum Miller

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

• Spiritual aspects of psychosis and recovery (PDF)

Bishop Richard Moth

• Listen Carefully and Attend with the Ear of your Heart (PDF)

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

Dr Mary Murray and Josefine Speyer

• Psycho-spiritual transformation through bereavement (PDF)

Dr Saliha Nazir

• What proportion of psychiatrists take a spiritual history? (PDF)

Dr Sally O'Brien

• Suicide and spirituality (PDF)

• Forgiveness and reconciliation (PDF)

Jayne Ozanne

• Spiritual abuse: the next great scandal for the Church (PDF)

Dr James Pandarakalam

• The spiritualisation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PDF)
• Parapsychology relevant to spirituality and psychiatry (PDF)
• The wailing of a helpless soul (PDF)
• Aspects of religion relevant to psychiatry (PDF)
• Fatima apparitional experiences (PDF)
• Garabandal visionary experiences (PDF)
• An emperor in parapsychology (PDF)
• A search for the truth of past life regression (PDF)
• The biblical reincarnation (PDF)
• New horizons in consciousness studies (PDF)
• Beyond the quantum mind (PDF)
• Spirituality and occupational hazards of psychiatry (PDF)
• A search for the truth of Near Death Experiences (PDF)
• Marian apparitions and discarnate existence (PDF)

Alexandra Pittock

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

Professor Rob Poole

• Secularism as a professional boundary in psychiatry (PDF)

• 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 (PDF)

Dr Elizabeth Procter

• The spiritual and religious beliefs of adolescents (PDF)

• Examining our spiritual spectacles: dangers and pitfalls (PDF)

Dr Oyepeju Raji

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

Dr Patte Randal and Dr. Nick Argyle

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

Dr Russell Razzaque

• Mindfulness in mental health; a clinician's journey (PDF)

   

Dr Tim Read

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

Dr David Reilly

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

Elsa Rossi

• Mediumship and Spiritism (PDF)

Dr Tamara Russell

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

Professor Mohamed Salem 

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

Dr Alan Sanderson

• Spirit releasement therapy (PDF)
• Spirit release therapy: what is it and what can it achieve? A clinical presentation of therapist and patient perspectives (PDF)
• The case for spirit release (PDF)
• The third transformation (PDF)
• The treatment of patients with delusional states (PDF)
• The significance of hallucinations in dissociative identity disorder (PDF)

Dr Ben Sessa

• From sacred plants to psychotherapy (PDF)

Canon Andrew Shanks

• Hegel and religious faith (PDF)

• Meditation as medication (PDF)

Gunjan Sharma

• Losing the Soul (PDF)

Dr Rupert Sheldrake

• The extended mind (PDF)

Dr Mike Shooter

• Suicide - an occupational hazard (PDF)

Professor Andrew Sims

• Ups and downs of spirituality in mental health (PDF)
• Is faith delusion? (PDF)
• Religious delusions (PDF)

• A personal experience of Kundalini (PDF)

Dr Maya Spencer

• What is spirituality? (PDF)

Canon Beaumont Stevenson

• Beyond death: different spiritual perspectives on the outward journey (PDF)
• When the part takes over the whole: practical, psychological and spiritual aspects of the Ministry of Deliverance (PDF)
• Healing by paradox in the Christian tradition  (PDF)

Professor John Swinton

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

• Intolerance or Ignorance? (PDF)

• Transcendence and the Psychotherapeutic Quest for Happiness (PDF)

Dr Peter Verhagen

• Sanctifying Personhood (PDF)

Dr de Wet Vorster

• Engaging the spiritual mind (PDF)

The Right Revd. Dominic Walker

• Is Evil necessary? (PDF)

Revd Paul Walker

• Spiritual Care, Giving and Receiving (PDF)

• Dru Yoga for transforming emotional pain (PDF)

Dr Fraser Watts

• Forgiveness: psychological and religious aspects (PDF)

Dr Michael Weir and Christine Perry

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

Martin Wells

• Kindness: a Natural Condition (PDF)

• Healing with advanced hypnotherapy - a science of spirituality (PDF)

• Vale of tears or vale of soulmaking (PDF)

Andrea Williams

• Intolerant secularisation (PDF)

Professor Mark Williams

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

Dr Roger Woolger

• Beyond death: transition and the after-life (PDF)

Dr Athar Yawar

• Healing in the Sufi tradition (PDF)