Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy

<p>This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical vignettes, chapters explore topics pertaining to the mystical dimensions of psychological and spiritual life and how it may be integrated into clinical practice. </p><p>Topics discussed include dreams, dissociation, creativity, therapeutic relationship, free association, transcendence, poetry, paradox, doubleness, loss, death, grief, mystery, embodiment and soul. The authors, clinicians with decades of experience in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and spiritual practice, draw from their deep engagement with spirituality and psychoanalysis, focusing on a particular theme and its application to clinical work that is supported by the generative conversation among these lineages. At once applied and theoretical, this book weaves insights from the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Ecumenicism, Integral Spirituality, Judaism, Kabbalah, Non-violence, Sufism and Vedanta. They are in conversation with psychoanalytic perspectives including Jungian, Post-Jungian, Winnicottian, Bionian, Post-Bionian and Relational. </p><p>A felt sense of the spiritual psyche in clinical practice emerges from this conversation among spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages, beckoning clinicians ever further on the path of spiritually rooted, psychodynamic practice.</p> <p>Editors’ Introduction</p><p>Willow Pearson and Helen Marlo</p><p>1. Inhabiting the Spiritual Psyche</p><p>Willow Pearson and Helen Marlo</p><p>2. Letting the Light Get In</p><p>Katherine Olivetti</p><p>3. Thoughts on Mystery, Paradox and Doubleness</p><p>Robin Bagai</p><p>4. Depth Psychotherapy and Spiritual Inquiry: Jungian and Transpersonal Perspectives</p><p>Bryan Wittine</p><p>5. Soul Home: The Kabbalah Dance and Jungian Psychoanalysis </p><p>Robin Eve Greenberg</p><p>6. Reckoning with the Spiritual Truth of Aversive Emotions: Evolving Unconditional Positive Regard and Discovering the Good Enough Clinician</p><p>Willow Pearson</p><p>7. Surviving through Destruction: Reading Gandhi in Winnicott </p><p>Shifa Haq</p><p>8. Out of Dissociation into Creation through Relation: A Depth-Oriented and Jungian Perspective on Psychological and Spiritual Experience</p><p>Helen Marlo</p><p>9. Caesuras of Dreaming: Being and Becoming, Thinking and Imagining</p><p>Willow Pearson</p><p>10. Allowing the Creation</p><p>Mitchel Becker</p>