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A feast of revealing narratives expose the amazing story of how people deal with critical points in personal transformation, also known as spiritual emergency. This book helps anyone who doesn't have a language to understand intense inner experiences and confuses them with mental illness. If you have felt disoriented by intense spiritual experiences this book will help you understand where you are and where you may be heading. It is a map of the journey of spiritual awakening written by a psychologist who knows the territory well. Reading it may make the difference between heading off to the hospital to get drugs to stop the symptoms or staying home and knowing you are OK.

Through compelling, engaging stories of real people, Resources for Extraordinary Healing exposes a new paradigm describing the causes of mental disturbances and maps pathways to full recovery. The book spells out this new form of integrative mental health care that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of mental illness, and describes the new forms of diagnostics and treatment in which conventional medical doctors collaborate with spiritual healers. Resources in the USA that are working to a new model of care available are clearly described along with contact information, making this book an excellent guide and reference for individuals wanting to recover from emotional disturbances, their families, healthcare providers and students of healthcare.

This Sourcebook gives comfort and direction to both people struggling to understand powerful inner experiences, and those who care for them. People in spiritual crisis have been perceived as mentally ill by healthcare professionals who are not knowledgeable about spiritual evolution. It is one of the first books to articulate the difference between symptoms of mental illness and signposts of spiritual or religious problems. Since 1990, this text has been used in graduate schools of Transpersonal Psychology, to increase the spiritual competency of psychologists.

An introduction to the philosophy of Spiritism presented in a clear, easy to understand manner. Especially of interest to those involved with healing and healthcare: this is the first book to describe contemporary spiritual healing centers in Brazil, which number over 12,000 - including a psychiatric hospital where spiritual healers collaborate with conventionally trained healthcare professionals. The author spent over a decade in Brazil studying these centers and hospitals, and the description of the methods for healing used for over 150 years demonstrate an unique and an effective model of integrative healthcare, offering effective forms of healing as a free service.

Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. This authoritative text will be of interest to mental health professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and complementary health practitioners.

Psychologist Emma Bragdon goes to John of God’s healing sanctuary in Abadiania, Brazil and interviews visiting physicians and healthcare providers from the USA and Europe. They all came to expand their notions of healing and health. They also came for personal health reasons. Dr. Bragdon colorfully shares their perspectives on their experiences. This is useful for comparing John’s healing work to conventional healthcare and considering the roots of what empowers healing. The photographs of individuals and places amplifies the joy of reading.