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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
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Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.
1. New Ways of Hearing Sacred Stories 2. Opening the Door 3. Metaphor and Spirituality 4. Stories of Spiritual Experience 5. Conversations between Person and God 6. Spiritual and Religious Beliefs 7. Rituals, Ceremonies, and Spiritual Practices 8. The Community in Spirituality 9. When Spirituality Turns Destructive 10. Living beyond Medical and Psychiatric Illnesses
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