Spirituality and mental health : breakthrough / edited by Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Whurr, 2004.Description: xxii, 234 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781861563927 (pbk.) :
- 1861563922 (pbk.)
- 616.89 BAR
- RA790.5
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 616.89 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 200416 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: Changes:- 1. Spirituality and mental health: something for nothing?-- Part Two: Meanings:- 2. Chocolate cakes--3. Perceptions of reality--4. Climbing Durer\'s ladder--5. A Via Negativa in the city: reflections from the whitechapel road--Part Three:Journeys:- 6. Craving--7. Confession--8. Pilgrimage--9. Discipline--10. Grace--11. Epiphanies-- Part Four: Healings:- 12. Heavenbound--A commentary on \'Heavenbound\'-- 13. Broken chains--14. Spirituality, madness and the man who lost a thousand masks--Part Five: In the long shadow - In the Light:- 15. Finding ourselves by getting lost.
This text explores spirituality and its relationship to mental health. It emphasizes the need to look inward and listen to the messages which are channelled through our beings, rather than dismiss these experiences as some form of 'disorder'.