The Skillful Soul of the Psychotherapist
The Link between Spirituality and Clinical Excellence
The Skillful Soul of the Psychotherapist
The Link between Spirituality and Clinical Excellence
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English
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Description
In The Skillful Soul of the Psychotherapist, master clinicians reflect on their core spiritual values, beliefs, experiences, and the role these play in psychotherapy.
In this one-of-a-kind text, Stavros invites master clinicians (and respondents) to reflect on how their religious backgrounds impact their approach to therapy. By taking a hermeneutic approach, this book places religion on par with culture, ethnicity, race and gender and reminds the reader that the history and person of the therapist matters. This book will be a delight to all therapists with religious or spiritual leanings and useful to those working with patients with religious and spiritual commitments.
Stavros builds a clinic on sacred ground and opens the front door to Spirit, creating opportunity for deeper healing and more profound growth. Benefiting from the wisdom of our ancestors, he asks how religion can guide the human psycho-spiritual journey. Experienced therapists will envision new horizons for treatment, and students will now form careers from a foundational view of spiritual life. For respecting the past, Stavros has innovated, with a true breakthrough. This book is very much needed by our contemporary culture of psychotherapy.
George S. Stavros, PhD, is the executive director of the Danielsen Institute at Boston University and a licensed psychologist. Steven J. Sandage, PhD, is the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology at Boston University. He is a licensed psychologist and director of the Center for Research in Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute.
In this one-of-a-kind text, Stavros invites master clinicians (and respondents) to reflect on how their religious backgrounds impact their approach to therapy. By taking a hermeneutic approach, this book places religion on par with culture, ethnicity, race and gender and reminds the reader that the history and person of the therapist matters. This book will be a delight to all therapists with religious or spiritual leanings and useful to those working with patients with religious and spiritual commitments.
Stavros builds a clinic on sacred ground and opens the front door to Spirit, creating opportunity for deeper healing and more profound growth. Benefiting from the wisdom of our ancestors, he asks how religion can guide the human psycho-spiritual journey. Experienced therapists will envision new horizons for treatment, and students will now form careers from a foundational view of spiritual life. For respecting the past, Stavros has innovated, with a true breakthrough. This book is very much needed by our contemporary culture of psychotherapy.
George S. Stavros, PhD, is the executive director of the Danielsen Institute at Boston University and a licensed psychologist. Steven J. Sandage, PhD, is the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology at Boston University. He is a licensed psychologist and director of the Center for Research in Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute.