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APA Recognizes Spirituality

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Spiritual Experiences Gain Mainstream Recognition with Prestigious Psychiatry Award … Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, has been awarded the 2025 Oskar Pfister Award by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This prestigious award recognizes his exceptional contributions to the scientific study of spiritual experiences and their profound implications for our understanding of consciousness and the survival of consciousness

Posted in Spirit, Spiritual Emergence, Uncategorized Alexander Moreira Almeida, american psychiatric association, APA, consciousness, Oskar Pfister, Spiritism and Mental Health, spirituality, survival of consciousness

Emergence Phenomena: Defined and Discussed

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Emergence Phenomena: Opening the Dialogue The experiences individuals have as a result of “spiritual emergence” are many and simple categories often miss the subtle differences that are important to acknowledge. Especially if someone is a clinician and needing to make an assessment, i.e. if a client/patient is in a process of spiritual emergence or not.

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence, Uncategorized anomalous experiences, Daniel Ingram, emergence, emergency, emergent phenomena, Frontiers in Psychology, meditation, non-ordinary, Oliver Sandilands, phenomenology, psychedelics, stan grof

Group Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): A New Frontier

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

Could taking and integrating ketamine in groups make psychedelic therapy more accessible? This blog explores what happens in the group and why it’s effective. The following is an abridged version of an article written by Sean Lawlor, published by Psychedelics Today in March 2021. As psychedelic-assisted therapy continues marching into the mainstream, the

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychedelics, Uncategorized group ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, group therapy, ketamine, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic medicine, psychedelics, Scott Shannon

Drop the Disorder! A Book Review

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Book Review: Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis. Editor: Jo Watson. Foreword: Paula J. Caplan. Published by: PCCS Books, Ltd, UK in September, 2019. The message of this book: Labeling people who are suffering with overwhelming emotional issues typically does not help them. Instead, a psychiatric diagnosis usually increases suffering and stigma.

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Uncategorized Drop the Disorder, DSM, Integrative Mental Heatlh, Jo Watson, mental health, Mental Health Diagnosis, Paula J Caplan, psych meds, psychiatric medications, psychiatry

What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

It’s in the Original Mission Both Spiritism and Spiritualism believe that the spirit world exists and spirits have an impact on human beings. The impact may be positive or negative, informative or deceptive. Both Spiritism and Spiritualism agree that we continue to live on after physical death in “Spirit World”. Both believe in psychic, or

Posted in Life After Death, Mental Health, Paranormal, Psychic Experiences, Spiritism, Spiritualism, Uncategorized mediumship, psychics, Spiritism, Spiritist Community Centers, Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals, spiritual healing, spiritualism, spirituality

How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

“The Cardinal” by E. Grutzner, 1846-1925? Spiritual Teachers and Spiritual Emergence Those on a path of spiritual emergence, seeking spiritual growth, often assume that their spiritual teachers are leading lives committed to helping others. Why? Because they have been helped by their teacher. It can create a raw spiritual crisis, a spiritual emergency, when they

Posted in John of God, Self-Realization, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritual Healing, Uncategorized Catholic priests, john of god, Self-realization, sex, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual healing