The Ways of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond - Softcover

Powell, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913274241 ISBN 13: 9781913274245

Publisher: Aeon Academic, 2019

Synopsis

A selection of papers written by an esteemed psychoanalyst exploring the authors research into a superordinate spiritual reality 

 

Psychiatry has eschewed the spiritual dimension in pursuit of scientific credibility. Yet psychiatrists are daily confronted by problems of meaning and purpose that neither medical nor psychological treatments alone can relieve. However, a new post-materialist science is emerging that understands consciousness to be primary and intrinsic to the workings of the universe. We become aware of this supreme reality through the agency of the soul, a source of love and wisdom that informs our understanding of what we are here for, helps overcome emotional distress, and encourages each person to serve life in their own unique and creative way. In these selected papers written over the last twenty years, the author shares his research into a superordinate spiritual reality that overcomes the limitations of scientific materialism and opens the way to insights of the soul, awakening love and conferring healing on heart and mind.

 

About this title

About the Author

Dr Andrew Powell MA, MB.BChir, MRCP, FRCPsych, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge with Distinction in Medicine. He  specialised in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital, London, before moving to St. George’s Hospital and Medical School as consultant and senior lecturer. Subsequently, he was appointed consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Warneford Hospital and University of Oxford until his retirement from the National Health Service. Originally trained in psychoanalytic and group-analytic therapy, his clinical work broadened to include psychodrama, spiritual healing and transpersonal psychology. He has served on the Council of the Scientific and Medical Network and is Founding Chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. In addition to companion volumes on transpersonal psychotherapy, The Ways of the Soul. A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond, and Conversations with the Soul. A Psychiatrist Reflects: Essays on Life, Death and Beyond, he is co-editor of the academic texts Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice and Spirituality and Psychiatry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aeon Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913274241
• ISBN 13: 9781913274245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276