Spirituality In Counselling And Psychotherapy

Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy Dennis Lines Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page i Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page ii Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page iii Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy Dennis Lines SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page iv © Dennis Lines 2006 First published 2006 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-10 1-4129-1956-8 ISBN-10 1-4129-1957-6 (pbk) ISBN-13 978-1-4129-1956-2 ISBN-13 978-1-4129-1957-9 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number available Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed on paper from sustainable resources Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page v Dedicated to all those on a Spiritual Journey Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page vi Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page vii Contents Foreword by Brian Thorne Acknowledgements Introduction ix xi 1 1 The Enlightened Mind 12 2 The Spiritual Revolution 27 3 Psychotherapy and Spirituality 40 4 Indications for Spiritually-centred Counselling 61 5 The Spiritually-centred Counsellor 83 6 The Process of Spiritual Healing 105 7 The Spiritual Journey 123 8 Obstacles along the Path 138 9 Religious and Spiritual Techniques in Therapy 158 Closure in Spiritual Therapy 182 10 Appendix: Scripture as Revised Discourse 196 References 201 Name Index 208 Subject Index 210 Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page viii Lines-343-Prelims.qxd 9/15/2006 4:59 PM Page ix Foreword