Why "integrating" psychotherapy and spirituality? This question seems ridiculous to many people for one of two reasons. Some say it's stupid, because they two must necessarily be separate as church and state. Another says it is stupid, because they are inextricably linked and require no effort on our part to integrate.
I am inclined to the idea that the two are inextricably linked, but we believe that they have been artificially separated from psychology, discipline that most clearly underlies the much of what we practice in psychotherapy, in its zeal to be scientific. Freud's contempt for religion has not helped either. Of course there have always been those who, like Carl Jung, who kept alive the prospect that psychology and psychotherapy are related to intrinsic spirituality. However, this perspective only be moved to a widespread acceptance among psychotherapists in the past decades, thanks to a part of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and Journal of transpersonal psychology. Acceptance of folk psychology, as shown in the American Psychological Association, has been marked in recent years.
Looking at the midwife of rebirth consciousness of mutual dependence between psychotherapy and spirituality. My attitude is to seek to support a process that is already in place naturally, rather than trying to force or create something new.
I suppose that psychotherapy no psychopathology right people. I see psychotherapy as a means of facilitating the emotional and spiritual growth of the customer who holds such a growth in the client in a somehow a positive influence on the culture where he or she is integrated. Hopefully we can all help our own emotional growth and spiritual, and thus make us more effective to do the same for our customers and our species. Questions or concerns about the following article may be addressed to the author or posted as Commenting on this blog. Click here to contact John and / or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile
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