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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives

James L. Griffith and Melissa Elliott Griffith

320 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"

Paperback:
July 2003
ISBN 978-1-57230-938-8
Cat. #0938
Price: $35.00
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Hardcover:
2002
ISBN 978-1-57230-701-8
Cat. #0701
Price: $60.00
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Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.