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Holism in Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: A Course Correction

✍ Scribed by Len Sperry; Erik Mansager

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
754 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
0160-7960

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✦ Synopsis

The authors offer a course correction for understanding the term holism as used in spiritually oriented psychotherapy literature. This is done to allow the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality to expand beyond limited dualistic conceptualizations. They first address numerous sources from which spiritually oriented psychotherapy arose and then explore the ill‐defined relationship between the psychological and the spiritual dimensions of human existence. Next, holism is distinguished from 2 common forms of dualistic β€œelementism” that are frequently misrepresented as holism. The authors conclude by presenting a holistic conceptualization of the relationship between the dimensions of psychotherapy and spirituality.

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