Psychotherapy and spirituality : integrating the spiritual dimension into therapeutic practice

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Cover; Psychotherapy and Spirituality; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: Spirituality in the Therapeutic Session; Introducing Part 1; 1 Flight, Fright or Faith?; 2 Groundless or Reasonable Fear?; 3 Psychological or Spiritual Trauma?; 4 Vision or Hallucination?; 5 Depression or Spiritual Darkness?; 6 Narcissism or Misdirected Worship?; Concluding Part 1; Part 2: A Grammar of Western Consciousness; Introducing Part 2; 7 The Past Complicates the Present; 1 Exploring the discrepancy between religious and secular subcultures; 2 Plausibility structures. 3 Losing our sense of unity4 The break-up between spirituality and theology; 5 The impoverishment of religious language; 6 Symbolic miscommunication; 7 The problematic situation of the contemporary religious believer; 8 Bringing the Background to the Fore; 1 The Foundation Matrix; 2 A group acting out themes of the foundation matrix; 3 Foundation matrix and spiritual concerns; 4 Metacommunication; 5 Why concern ourselves with the foundation matrix?; 9 Psychotherapy and Cultural Root Metaphors; 1 Foundation matrix and metaphors; 2 Root metaphor theory. 3 How cultural root metaphors may be problematic4 Cultural root metaphors in psychotherapy; 5 Spirituality and cultural root metaphors; 6 How cultural root metaphors can shape spiritual concerns; 10 Psychotherapy and Spiritual Root Metaphors; 1 Spiritual root metaphors; 2 What is the function of spiritual root metaphors?; 3 Criteria for adequate spiritual root metaphors; 4 When spiritual root metaphors are disconnected from their context; 5 Excursus: journeys and laws; 6 The consequences of disconnecting the trial metaphor; 7 Therapy and spiritual root metaphors; 8 Psychotherapy and the Bible. 11 Spiritual Root Metaphors and Modern Western Consciousness1 Spiritual metaphors as hidden navigators; 2 When the journey metaphor goes underground; 3 When the trial metaphor goes underground; 4 When the warfare metaphor goes underground; 5 Psychotherapy and disconnected spiritual root metaphors; Concluding Part 2; Part 3: Existential and Cognitive Aspects of Spirituality; Introducing Part 3; 12 Spirituality as a Change Process; 1 An ancient theory of spiritual development; 2 Adapting the ancient systematisation to modern experience; 3 Why 'aspects' rather than 'phases'? 4 Psychotherapy and the spiritual change process5 Spirituality and customary religious behaviour; 13 The Existential Aspect of Spirituality; 1 Psychotherapy and the existential dimension; 2 Existential consciousness; 3 Spiritual True Self; 4 Characteristics of the existential aspect; 5 How the existential interacts with psychotherapy; 6 Discernment at the existential level; 14 Psychotherapy and the Struggle for Authentic Spirituality; 1 Deciding about spiritual True Self; 2 Spiritual self-doubt and ambivalence; 3 The existential aspect of spiritual change; 4 'Transcendtal' anorexia nervosa