Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and indexes.
Contents
Part 1: Spirituality in the therapeutic session. Flight, fright or faith? -- Groundless or reasonable fear? -- Psychological or spiritual trauma? -- Vision or hallucination? Depression or spiritual darkness? -- Narcissism or misdirected worship? -- Part 2: A grammar of Western consciousness. The past complicates the present -- Bringing the background to the fore -- Psychotherapy and cultural root metaphors -- Psychotherapy and spiritual root metaphors -- Spiritual root metaphors and modern Western consciousness -- Part 3: Existential and cognitive aspects of spirituality. Spirituality as a change process -- The existential aspect of spirituality -- Psychotherapy and the struggle for authentic spirituality -- The cognitive aspect of spirituality -- Psychotherapy and illuminative experience -- Part 4: Relational aspect of spirituality. The analysis of spiritual relationships -- Spirituality as a negative therapeutic factor -- Impersonal (or manipulative) relationships -- . Predestination and double predestination -- Mutual agreement (or contractual) relationships -- Mutual love (or fellowship) relationships.