William West & Roy Moodley 
Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy [EPUB ebook] 

‘If you are a student, professor, or practitioner of the ′talking cures′ – buy this book, read it, use it, and experience the difference it makes in your thoughts and actions.’ –Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., D.H.C., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, for Psyc Critiques (Contemporary Psychology), APA, November 15, 2005 issue

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy critically examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counseling and psychotherapy. Authors Roy Moodley and William West highlight the challenges and changes in the field of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy by integrating current issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice. The book uniquely presents a range of accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing students, professional counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, researchers, and others who use multicultural counseling or transcultural psychotherapy as part of their professional practice.    




Key Features:

• Contributes to the wider debates about ethnic minority health care by focusing on how ethnic minority groups construct illness perceptions and the kinds of treatments they expect to solve health and mental health problems


• Analyzes traditional healing of racial, ethnic, and religious groups living in the United States, Canada, and Britain to consider the diffusion of healing practices across cultural boundaries


•  Explores contemporary alternative health care movements such as paganism, New Age Spirituality and healing, transcendental meditation, and new religious movements to increase the knowledge and capacity of clinical expertise of students studying in this field  

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying multicultural counseling or psychotherapy. The book is also a valuable resource for academics, researchers, psychotherapists, counselors, and other practitioners.

Table of Content

Dedication

Foreword – Thomas J. Csordas

Series Editor′s Foreword – Paul Pedersen

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION – Roy Moodley, William West

PART I: INDIGENOUS PERFORMANCES, CULTURAL WORLDVIEWS AND SUPERNATURAL HEALING

Chapter 1. Shamanic Performances: Healing through Magic and the Supernatural – Roy Moodley

Chapter 2. Aboriginal Worldview of Healing: Inclusion, Bending, and Bridging – Anne Poonwassie, Ann Charter

Chapter 3. The Djinns: A Sophisticated Conceptualization of Pathologies and Therapies – Toby Nathan

Chapter 4. Crossing the Line Between Talking Therapies and Spiritual Healing – William West

PART II: HEALING AND CURING: TRADITIONAL HEALERS AND HEALING

Chapter 5. Indigenous Healers and Healing in a Modern World – Anne Solomon, Njoki Nathani Wane

Chapter 6. Traditional Healing Practices in Southern Africa: Ancestral Spirits, Ritual Ceremonies, and Holistic Healing – Olaniyi Bojuwoye

Chapter 7. Caribbean Healers and Healing: Awakening Spiritual and Cultural Healing Powers – Ronald Marshall

Chapter 8. Latin American Healers and Healing: Healing as a Redefinition Process – Lilian Gonzalez Chevez

Chapter 9. Traditional and Cultural Healing Among the Chinese – Joseph K. So

Chapter 10. South Asian (Indian) Traditional Healing: Ayurveda, Shamanic and Sahaja Therapy – Manoj Kumar, Dinesh Bhugra, Jagmohan Singh

PART III: SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION AND CULTURAL HEALING

Chapter 11: Animism: Foundation of Traditional Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa – Clemmont E. Vontress

Chapter 12: Hindu Spirituality and Healing Practices – Pittu Laungani

Chapter 13: Inner Healing Prayer in ‘Spirit-Filled’ Christianity – Fernando L. Garzon

Chapter 14: Islam, Divinity and Spiritual Healing – Qulsoom Inayat

Chapter 15: Jewish Healing, Spirituality, and Modern Psychology – Laura J. Praglin

Chapter 16: Buddhist Moments in Psychotherapy – Roshni Daya

PART IV: TRADITIONAL HEALING AND ITS CONTEMPORARY FORMULATIONS

Chapter 17. Sweat Lodge as Psychotherapy: Congruence Between Traditional and Modern Healing – David Paul Smith

Chapter 18. Maat: An African Centered Paradigm for Psychological and Spiritual Healing – Mekada Graham

Chapter 19. Morita Therapy: A Philosophy of Yin/Yang Coexistence – Charles P. Chen

Chapter 20. Pagan Approaches to Healing – Estelle Seymour

Chapter 21. Yoga and Its Practice in Psychological Healing – Josna Pankhania

Chapter 22. Holistic Healing, Paradigm Shift, and the New Age – Patricia A. Poulin, William West

PART V: FINDING THE LINK BETWEEN TRADITIONAL HEALING AND THERAPY

Chapter 23. Spiritual and Healing Approaches in Psychotherapeutic Practice – Robert N. Sollod

Chapter 24: Psychotherapy as Ritual: Connecting the Concrete With the Symbolic – Michael Anderson

Chapter 25: The Healing Path: What Can Counselors Learn From Aboriginal People About How to Heal? – Rod Mc Cormick

Chapter 26: Herbalistas, Curandeiros and Bruxas: Valuable Lessons From Traditional Systems of Healing – Birdie J. Bezanson, Gary Foster, Susan James

Chapter 27: Sharing Healing Secrets: Counselors and Traditional Healers in Conversation – Rebecca Gawile Sima, William West

Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the author

Roy Moodley, Ph D, is Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada and Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. His research interests include critical multicultural counseling/psychotherapy; race and culture in psychotherapy; traditional healing practices; and gender and identity. He is the author/editor or co-editor of 12 books, including: Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2005), Race, Culture and Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2006), and Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health (Routledge, 2013).