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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Return of the Gods; Intuitive thinking; Indigenous influence; The practical nature of spirituality; My path to here; Intellectual standpoint; Author's note; 1. Gods and Diseases; Archetypes and subtle forces; Diseases of the spirit; Archetypal medicine; The problem of credibility; Seeing through to the metaphor; 'It's only psychological': popular approaches and positive thinking; Wrestling with our demons; The spiritual roots of healing; Metaphor as illness; The theory in plain language; 2. The Suffering of Spiritual Rebirth |
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The induction into spiritThe natural state overcomes itself; Metaphors of death and rebirth; Spiritual initiation in the context of jungian thought; The function and character of the Self; The human journey and the stages of life; The spiritual meaning of life; Exile and homecoming; 3. The Midlife Crisis as Spiritual Interruption; The midlife crisis in changed conditions; When one becomes two; Transformation without cultural support; Disruptions in gender identity; Disruptions in sexual identity; Resistance to transformation; Society without spiritual pathways; Spirituality at the end of life |
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Primordial thinkingReturning to the source; 4. Cancer Phobia as a Doorway to Soul; Back door to soul; Cancer as growth gone wrong; Neurosis as arrested development; Cancer phobia and the diseased soul; To speak of soul; Breaking the stranglehold of reason; Against the tide; 5. Sexuality and the Sacred; Part 1: The father/daughter entanglement; The archetypal core of a complex; Neurosis as distorted religious interest; The creative role of transference; Religion for the non-religious; Part 2: Freud, Jung and the sacred; The repression of spirit; The claims of the sacred; Splitting the force |
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6. Incest, Child Abuse and AlcoholismPart 1: Incest as a spiritual pathology; Freud, Jung and incest; Freud: incest as criminal act or hysterical fantasy?; Symbolic images in child sexual abuse; The story of Nicodemus; Criminality and spirituality; Part 2: Alcoholism: Under the influence; Alcohol as a substitute for transcendence; Alcoholics Anonymous; 7. Depression, Self-Harm and Suicide; Depression as a struggle with an alien will; The dying of immature innocence; Becoming aware of another claim; Self-esteem as a gift from the soul; Ordeals and trials in ancient and modern contexts |
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Self-harm and abuseCutting, piercing, tattooing; The expectation of transformation; Suicidal impulses in young adults; Suicide as a collective problem; Who or what wants to die?; 8. The Storm Gods and the German Psychosis; An ancient god let loose; The blond beast awaits redemption; Godlikeness, inflation and immorality; The crisis of the West: Failing to acknowledge the gods; Nietzsche as the portent of an epoch; The poet sings the warning song; Suffering and awareness; Building a new vessel; Towards the turning; 9. Spirituality, Medicine, Health; The changing landscape of health |
| Summary |
Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious solution in sight. In Gods and Diseases, David Tacey argues that the answers lie in leaving behind the confines of conventional medicine. Instead we should turn towards spirituality and to what he calls 'meaning-making', to make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing and explore how the numin |
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New wine of the spirit |
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Print version record |
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Mental health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Spiritual healing.
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Psychology, Religious.
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psychology of religion.
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Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Mental health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Psychology, Religious
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Spiritual healing
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135085773 |
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1135085773 |
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