Psychosis and Spirituality Consolidating the New Paradigm

by Clarke, Isabel

• ISBN13: 9780470683477
• ISBN10: 0470683473
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latest research to present an original and unique exploration of the psychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from a broad range of distinguished contributors. This new edition covers the most recent body of research, both qualitative and quantitative, in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality, and investigation into anomalous experiences Ten new chapters added and the remaining text completely updated New to this edition is an expanded clinical section, relevant to clinicians working with psychosis Offers a fundamental rethink of the concept of psychosis, and proposes new insights into spirituality Includes feature chapters from a distinguished list of contributors across a broad range of disciplines, including Peter Fenwick, Peter Chadwick, David Kingdon, Gordon Claridge, Neil Douglas Klotz and David Lukoff

Author Biography

Isabel Clarke is a consultant clinical psychologist, working in acute mental health in the NHS. She is the author of Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God (2008), and co-editor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units: Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu (with H. Wilson, 2008). For more information, please visit www.isabelclarke.org

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgement

Notes on Editor and Contributors

Psychosis and Spirituality Revisited: The Frontier is Opening Up!

Neuropsychology

The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience

Cognitive Neuroscience, Spirituality and Mysticism: Recent Developments

Spirituality Revisited

The Polarities of Consciousness

Missing Stories: Psychosis, Spirituality and the Development of Western Religious Hermeneutics

The Mystical Face of Psychosis: The Psychotic Face of Mysticism. The New Continuum

'On Not Drinking Soup with a Fork': From Spiritual Experience to Madness to Growth - A Personal Journey

Spiritual Experience: Healthy Psychoticism?

'Psychopathology', 'Psychosis' and the Kundalini: Post-Modern Perspectives On Unusual Subjective Experience

The Discontinuity Hypothesis and its Philosophical Implications

Psychosis and Spirituality: The Discontinuity Model

Knowledge and Reality

Research

Are Delusions on a Continuum? The Case of Religious and Delusional Beliefs

The Paradigm-Shifting Hypothesis: A Common Process in Benign Psychosis and Psychotic Disorder

Transformative Crises

Exploring the Transliminal: Qualitative Studies

Clinical Implications

'What is Real and What is Not': Towards a Positive Reconceptualisation of Vulnerability to Unusual Experiences

Visionary Spiritual Experiences

Learning to Become Centred and Grounded and Let the Voices Come and Go

Mapping Our Madness: The Hero's Journey as A Therapeutic Approach

Spirituality, Psychosis and the Development of 'Normalising Rationales'

Endword

References

Index

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