Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
James L. Griffith and Melissa Elliott Griffith
HardcoverPaperbacke-bookprint + e-book
Hardcover
orderOctober 19, 2001
ISBN 9781572307018
Price: $95.00 320 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback
orderJuly 29, 2003
ISBN 9781572309388
Price: $45.00320 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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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.