Brief Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Author | : Thomas K. Galten Ph. D. |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780595304196 |
ISBN-13 | : 0595304192 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Download or read book Brief Psychotherapy and Spirituality written by Thomas K. Galten Ph. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overarching theme of this book is that spiritually-oriented psychotherapy is entirely consistent with brief psychotherapeutic relationships. In advancing this claim, I first present an overview of contemporary spirituality and the brief psychotherapy movement. I later seek to describe the subtle but powerful connections that exist between certain approaches to brief therapy and the experience commonly referred to as cosmic consciousness. Before beginning a deliberate description of what I call Brief Spiritual Psychotherapy (BSP), I describe the experience of cosmic consciousness from the perspectives of Christian doctrine, Eastern philosophy and transpersonal psychology. Throughout I attempt to show how it is that these bodies of thought lay the conceptual groundwork in our day for the practice of therapy that is based upon a spiritual outlook. I follow this preparation with a discussion of the specifics of BSP, using the elements that are inherently involved in any psychotherapy - view of the client, view of the problem, role of the therapist, and theory of change -as orienting structure.