APA Recognizes Spirituality

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

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency  by Emma Bragdon, PhD Joshua Mantz, (above), fresh out of West Point Academy, was a second lieutenant in the army deployed in 2006 to a dangerous zone in Baghdad, Iraq,
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Spiritual Bypassing

  Spiritual Bypassing Defined The term, spiritual bypassing, was made popular in the 1980’s by the late John Welwood, PhD, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist who observed the phenomenon in his own spiritual community. Sometimes life
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Two Books Re: Adding Spirituality to Mental Healthcare

 Dr. Powell Many health problems arise from emotional and spiritual suffering and need to be addressed at a deeper level than technology and medications.  Research findings and clinical experience increasingly reveal that spiritual factors have
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The Awakened Brain

  The Awakened Brain is: “A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience.”—from a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning researcher “Dr. Miller is a
Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy: Climate Crisis as Spiritual Path

  Joanna Macy (at 92) is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is the author of twelve books. See a recent documentary film here with an interview of
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Abstract: Spiritual Competencies Needed in Mental Health Practices

An abstract of a longer article by Drs Cassandra Vieten and David Lukoff first published July 2021 about the need for psychologists to develop skills in asking about religion and spirituality.   The Abstract Religion
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What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

[2010 film Depicts the Spirit World]  Spiritualism and Spiritism: A Comparison Similarities Both Spiritism and Spiritualism originated in the 19th century.  Each believes that the spirit world of disembodied beings exists and spirits can interact
Spiritism and Spiritualism

What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

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
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Psychiatry and Spirituality

Contentment with Your Religious Belief Impacts Mental Health Psychiatric disorders involve pathological changes in consciousness, thinking, emotions and behavior, which compromise social performance, with impairments in quality of life. Understanding the phenomenology of mental disorders