Integrate spiritual traditions with psychological healing! In this fascinating volume, clinical practitioners of different religious traditions examine the same clinical case, offering insights, interventions, and explanations of transformation and healing. This practical approach allows them to explore broader issues of personality theory and psychology from the perspectives of various spiritual traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy addresses both the practical issues of doing psychotherapy and the deeper need to relate psychology and theology. After providing a thorough introduction to the spiritual tradition, each author presents a critical psychological theory of personality and psychotherapy grounded in that tradition. The authors address the questions of what it means to be a person, what causes human distress, and how individuals experience healing. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights into the urgent issues of human suffering and psychological transformation, including: theories of personality structure and human motivation the nature of experience and processes of change the dialectical relation of theology and psychology convergences and difference among the religious psychologies Marrying theory and practice, spirit and psyche, Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights and effective interventions. Mental health professionals, clergy, and scholars in religion, cross-cultural studies, personality, counseling, and psychotherapy will find this breakthrough book a life-changing experience and an invaluable resource.
Booknews Six clinical psychologists from six different Eastern and Western religious traditions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—examine a single clinical case from their individual religious perspective. Each of six chapters includes an overview of the specific spiritual tradition; its theory of personality; its theory of the symptoms and etiology of distress, suffering, or pathology; its theory of therapy; procedures and techniques to facilitate change; relationships between the religious tradition and other traditions; and application to the specific clinical case. For mental health professionals and clergy, and for academic instructors and students in undergraduate and graduate courses on religion, cross-cultural studies, personality, counseling, and psychotherapy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

De Piano, Frank, Mukherjee, Ashe, Kamilar, Scott Mitchel, Hagen, Lynne M, Hartsman, Elaine, Olson, R. Paul

Haworth Press, Incorporated, The

Pharmaceutical Products Press

International Business Press

New York: Haworth Press

United States, United States of America

New York, 2012

1, PT, 2002

May 2002

The origin of Hindu religion dates back to at least 6,000 years ago when the Aryan race the first immigrated to India through the Himalayas.

xxi, 428 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2023-06-28