Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Chapter 3 - Psychosis

  • Edited by Christopher C. H. Cook, Andrew Powell
  • Book:
    Spirituality and Psychiatry
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 49-70

  • Summary

    Psychosis and spirituality are often accompanied by profound and disorienting difficulties with understanding, meaning and purpose. In this chapter the authors draw on their experience as rehabilitation psychiatrists, and their view of spirituality as an essential and integral aspect of being fully human, to explore key interrelationships between spirituality and psychosis in the service of promoting health and healing. Using examples of lived experience they illustrate ways in which the practical application of spiritual perspectives can be important in enabling recovery – from understanding a person’s experience in the context of their personal, religious and cultural background, to re-visioning practice as person-centred care, and from recognising the needs of individual practitioners to service development and cultivating a culture that values peer support. They argue that there is no special or specific ’spiritual’ therapy, but rather that the conscious embodiment of kind, careful and ethical practice upholds spiritual qualities.