| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Contents |
Dedication; Acknowledgement; Foreword; Introduction; PART I; Chapter 1 Asking the Right Questions; Chapter 2 What is Depression?; Depression as an Illness of Being; Moderate to Major Depression; Seasonal Affective Disorder; Bipolar Disorder; Dark Night of the Soul and Creative Depression; Loss of Spiritual Connection; Chapter 3 Depression as a Spiritual Journey; Chapter 4 The Meaning of Suffering; The Three Levels of Suffering; Suffering through the Lens of the Major Religions; Suffering as Service; Chapter 5 Persephone and the Underworld; The Story; Will and Choice; Unpacking the Myth |
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A Moral CompassThe Light in the Darkness; PART II; Chapter 6 Tools on the Journey; Medical Intervention; My Own Experience; The Healing Field; Serotonin and Depression; Neurotransmitters and the Role of Neurons; Depression and the Brain; Glial Cells -- the Glue; Antidepressants; Side Effects; Why Medication doesn't Always Work; What to do when a Medication does Work; The Difficulty in Accepting Medication; Chapter 7 The Roots of Psychology; Psychodynamic Therapy; Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Humanistic Counseling; Transpersonal Psychology; Jungian Analytical Therapy |
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Post Jungians and Creative DepressionJung and Assagioli; Chapter 8 My Journey into Psychosynthesis; Psychiatrist, Mountaineer and Mystic; As Above, So Below; Part III; Chapter 9 Going Deeper; Sea Journey as Metaphor; The Odyssey; Chapter 10 Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Emergence; Stanislav Grof: A Psychiatrist with Insight; A Psychotic Episode or Spiritual Emergency; Spiritual Emergency and the Dark Night of the Soul; Distinctions between the Self and the Superconscious; Distinctions between Mystical Experience and Schizophrenia; Spiritual and Global Emergency Today |
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Chapter 11 The Dark Night of the SoulTeresa of Avila; St John of the Cross; Grace; Chapter 12 Defining the Dark Night; Dark Night of the Senses; Dark Night of the Spirit; Chapter 13 Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul; Distinctions between Dark Night of the Soul and Pathological Depression; Chapter 14 Treasure and Creative Darkness; Creativity as Process; Part IV; Chapter 15 How to be with someone who is Depressed; Chapter 16 Understanding Suicide; "I Have Lost my Angel"; Shame; Suicide in the Young; Suicide in the Elderly; Mindsets about Suicide; Suicide Bombers |
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Chapter 17 How to be with a Suicidal PersonFrom Doing to Being; As a Spiritual Journey; The Gift; Conclusion; Glossary; References |
| Summary |
Depression as a Spiritual Journey is the first book to address depression as a spiritual journey in the context of medication and counselling. It serves as an invitation to reframe depression in a new way. Many people resist embracing medication as part of the healing process. Others confuse emotional and mental dis-ease |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Spirituality.
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Spirituality
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Depression, Mental
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Spirituality
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780996448 |
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1780996446 |
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