Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice

About the editors:Professor Christopher C.H. Cook - Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health, Durham University and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.Dr Andrew Powell - Former Consultant Psychotherapist at Warneford Hospital, Oxford and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford.Professor Andrew Sims - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Leeds.

• Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Narrative in psychiatry, theology and spirituality; 2. Spirituality and transcultural narratives; 3. Psychopathology and the clinical story; 4. Helping patients tell their story: narratives of body, mind and soul; 5. Gods lost and found: spiritual coping in clinical practice; 6. Stories of joy and sorrow: spirituality and affective disorder; 7. Stories of fear: spirituality and anxiety disorders; 8. Stories of transgression: narrative therapy with offenders; 9. Narratives of transformation in psychosis; 10. My story: a spiritual narrative; 11. God's story revealed in the human story; 12. Meaning without 'believing': attachment theory, mentalisation and the spiritual dimension of analytical psychotherapy; 13. Stories of living with loss: spirituality and ageing; 14. Beginnings and endings.

"A fascinating book. ...Demonstrates powerfully that storytelling is central to psychiatric practice, as indeed it is arguably to areas of medical practice. ...I highly commend this book to all, including patients who may well find it helpful." - Chrism (The Journal of the Guild of Health & St Raphael)