Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- 1 Defining Spirituality -- Introduction -- Historical Origins -- A Transitional Period -- The Contemporary Standpoint -- General Directions in Defining Spirituality -- Ontological Or Substantive Definitions -- Functional Definitions -- Mixed Definitions -- Author's Typology of Definitions -- Existential Interpretation of the Typology Based On the Concept of Self-Transcendence -- Conclusions -- Discussion Questions
Artificial Positivity -- A Limited Usefulness of Correlational Designs -- A Constrained Choice of Research Methods -- Exclusiveness of Spiritual and Nonreligious Dimensions -- Research-Based Versus Clinical Approach -- Neuroscientific Study of Spirituality -- Challenges of Neuroscientific Research of Spirituality -- Subjective States -- Small Samples -- Test Bias -- Level of Significance -- Lack of Controls -- Remaining Challenges -- Conclusions -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 3 What Is a Spiritual Experience? -- Introduction -- The Nature of Spiritual Experiences
William James and Evelyn Underhill -- Louis Roy -- Gerald May -- Forms of Spiritual Experience -- Roy's Stages of Spiritual Experience -- Unconscious Dimension of Spiritual Experiences -- Conclusions -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 4 How to Understand Spiritual Development and Growth -- Introduction -- Spiritual Development in Western Theology and Mysticism -- Psychological Models of Spiritual Development -- Fowler's Faith Stages -- Genia's Model of Spiritual Growth -- Mabry's Faith Styles -- Spiritual Grounding -- The Search for the Sacred: Pargament's Model
Author's Addition to Pargament's Model -- Development of Spiritual Identity -- Spirituality of Different Age Groups -- Spiritual Breaking Free -- Models of Linking Psychological and Spiritual Development -- Conclusions -- Discussion Questions -- Note -- References -- 5 From Spiritual Direction to Spiritually Integrated Therapy -- The History -- Spiritual Direction -- Pastoral Care and Pastoral Counseling -- Spiritually Integrated/Oriented Psychotherapy -- Select Universal Models of Spiritually Integrated/Oriented Psychotherapy -- Logotherapy
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Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography
References -- 2 Researching and Measuring Spirituality Challenges and Opportunities -- General Problems in Researching Human Phenomena -- Reductionism -- Complexity of Mental Phenomena -- Subjective Experience -- Non-representative Samples -- Problematic Relationship Between Religion and Spirituality -- Religiosity as a Subcategory of Spirituality -- Religiosity as Partly Similar to and Partly Different From Spirituality -- Religiosity as Different From Spirituality -- Specific Challenges to Measuring Spirituality -- Intermingling With Other Concepts -- A Lack of Contextual Understanding
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Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy as the Search for the Sacred
