The Ways of the Soul
A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond
Published on 1. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-913274-24-5 (ISBN)
Description
A selection of papers written by an esteemed psychoanalyst exploring the authors research into a superordinate spiritual reality
Psychiatry has eschewed the spiritual dimension in pursuit of scientific credibility. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor psychological treatments alone can relieve. However, a new post-materialist science is emerging that understands consciousness to be primary and intrinsic to the workings of the universe. We become aware of this supreme reality through the agency of the soul, a source of love and wisdom that informs our understanding of what we are here for, helps overcome emotional distress, and encourages each person to serve life in their own unique and creative way. In these selected papers written over the last twenty years, the author shares his research into a superordinate spiritual reality that overcomes the limitations of scientific materialism and opens the way to insights of the soul, awakening love and conferring healing on heart and mind.
Psychiatry has eschewed the spiritual dimension in pursuit of scientific credibility. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor psychological treatments alone can relieve. However, a new post-materialist science is emerging that understands consciousness to be primary and intrinsic to the workings of the universe. We become aware of this supreme reality through the agency of the soul, a source of love and wisdom that informs our understanding of what we are here for, helps overcome emotional distress, and encourages each person to serve life in their own unique and creative way. In these selected papers written over the last twenty years, the author shares his research into a superordinate spiritual reality that overcomes the limitations of scientific materialism and opens the way to insights of the soul, awakening love and conferring healing on heart and mind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Aeon Books Ltd
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913274-24-5 (9781913274245)
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Dr Andrew Powell MA, MB.BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge with Distinction in Medicine. He specialised in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital, London, before moving to St. George's Hospital and Medical School as consultant and senior lecturer. Subsequently, he was appointed consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Warneford Hospital and University of Oxford until his retirement from the National Health Service. Originally trained in psychoanalytic and group-analytic therapy, his clinical work broadened to include psychodrama, spiritual healing and transpersonal psychology. He has served on the Council of the Scientific and Medical Network and is Founding Chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. In addition to companion volumes on transpersonal psychotherapy, The Ways of the Soul. A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond, and Conversations with the Soul. A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond, he is co-editor of the academic texts Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice and Spirituality and Psychiatry.