Isabel Clarke 
Psychosis and Spirituality [PDF ebook] 
Consolidating the New Paradigm

The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latest research to present an original and unique exploration of the psychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from a broad range of distinguished contributors.

* This new edition covers the most recent body of research, both qualitative and quantitative, in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality, and investigation into anomalous experiences

* Ten new chapters added and the remaining text completely updated

* New to this edition is an expanded clinical section, relevant to clinicians working with psychosis

* Offers a fundamental rethink of the concept of psychosis, and proposes new insights into spirituality

* Includes feature chapters from a distinguished list of contributors across a broad range of disciplines, including Peter Fenwick, Peter Chadwick, David Kingdon, Gordon Claridge, Neil Douglas Klotz and David Lukoff

Tabella dei contenuti

List of Figures.

Acknowledgement.

Notes on Editor and Contributors.

1 Psychosis and Spirituality Revisited: The Frontier is Opening
Up! (Isabel Clarke).

Section 1. Neuropsychology.

2 The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience (Peter
Fenwick).

3 Cognitive Neuroscience, Spirituality and Mysticism: Recent
Developments (B. Les Lancaster).

Section 2. Spirituality Revisited.

4 The Polarities of Consciousness (Natalie Tobert).

5 Missing Stories: Psychosis, Spirituality and the Development
of Western Religious Hermeneutics (Neil Douglas-Klotz).

Section 3. The Mystical Face of Psychosis: The Psychotic Face
of Mysticism. The New Continuum.

6 ‘On Not Drinking Soup with a Fork’: From Spiritual Experience
to Madness to Growth – A Personal Journey (Peter K.
Chadwick).

7 Spiritual Experience: Healthy Psychoticism? (Gordon
Claridge).

8 ‘Psychopathology’, ‘Psychosis’ and the Kundalini: Post-Modern
Perspectives On Unusual Subjective Experience (Richard
House).

Section 4. The Discontinuity Hypothesis and its Philosophical
Implications.

9 Psychosis and Spirituality: The Discontinuity Model (Isabel
Clarke).

10 Knowledge and Reality (Chris Clarke).

Section 5. Research.

11 Are Delusions on a Continuum? The Case of Religious and
Delusional Beliefs (Emmanuelle Peters).

12 The Paradigm-Shifting Hypothesis: A Common Process in Benign
Psychosis and Psychotic Disorder (Mike Jackson).

13 Transformative Crises (Caroline Brett).

14 Exploring the Transliminal: Qualitative Studies (Sharon
Warwick and Roger Waldram).

Section 6. Clinical Implications.

15 ‘What is Real and What is Not’: Towards a Positive
Reconceptualisation of Vulnerability to Unusual Experiences
(Isabel Clarke).

16 Visionary Spiritual Experiences (David Lukoff).

17 Learning to Become Centred and Grounded and Let the Voices
Come and Go (Nigel Mills).

18 Mapping Our Madness: The Hero’s Journey as A Therapeutic
Approach (Janice Hartley).

19 Spirituality, Psychosis and the Development of ‘Normalising
Rationales’ (David Kingdon, Ron Siddle, Farooq Naeem and Shanaya
Rathod).

20 Endword (Isabel Clarke).

References.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Isabel Clarke is a consultant clinical psychologist, working in acute mental health in the NHS. She is the author of Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God (2008), and co-editor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units: Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu (with H. Wilson, 2008). For more information, please visit www.isabelclarke.org.