Primordial Spirituality

The Spirituality Questionnaire: Core Dimensions of Spirituality

Jochen Hardt, Sonja Schultz, Carola Xander, Gerhild Becker, Malgorzata Dragan Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Email: [email protected]...

Cyborg Spirituality

This article explores crossovers from Eastern philosophy and spirituality to contemporary science and medicine in the West. My interest is not so much in specific lines of historical transmission, as in the channels through which they flow. In particular, my argument is that different ontologies – visions of how the world is – either facilitate or block such exchanges. As an example, think abou...

Spirituality, music and psychiatry

Spirituality in medical practice.

Body, mind, and spirit are integrally connected. Medical training in the Western world has been strong concerning the more easily measured physical aspects, and on the mental needs it has been virtually mute on how to minister to the spiritual needs of our patients. Learning the spiritual aspects of medical care is not a typical part of the medical school curriculum, and yet it is emerging as s...

Religion and spirituality.

Many clients highly value religious and spiritual (R/S) commitments, and many psychotherapists have accommodated secular treatments to R/S perspectives. We meta-analyzed 51 samples from 46 studies (N = 3,290) that examined the outcomes of religious accommodative therapies and nonreligious spirituality therapies. Comparisons on psychological and spiritual outcomes were made to a control conditio...