Psychotherapy and the Spiritual Quest
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801009480 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 173 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Benner has published "The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology", "Psychotherapy in Christian Perspective", "Psychology and Religion" and "Christian Counselling and Psychotherapy".. He attempts therefore to present a model of personality as a psychospiritual unity. This study attempts to identify the religious roots of psychotherapy and surveys the views of spirituality found in a broad range of psychologies such as Jung, Kierkegaard and May. The author reviews the history and understanding of spirituality found in a variety of Christian traditions from the Desert Fathers to
A Psychotherapist's God and Spirituality Bradley P. Hayton Benner believes that psychotherapy is innately spiritual. He first surveys the history of the cure of souls as it evolved as the cure of minds, demonstrating how psychotherapy became one religion supplanting another. He then dissects three misconceived integrated positions: psychospiritual dualism, spiritual reductionism, and psychological reductionism.His analysis is somewhat like Carter and Narramore's treatment, but much more practical and useful regarding psychotherapeutic issues. He gives tangible case studies to put mea