Soul Consciousness and Human Suffering: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Healing
Dr. Andrew Powell

Abstract

A clinical approach to the understanding of disturbances of the psyche that otherwise would be regarded as pathological states of mind is described. A parallel is drawn between psychoanalytic object relations theory and "spiritual object relations," working from the premise that mind comes before matter. A number of clinical examples illustrate how both psychological and spiritual interpretations may be applied and that highlight the need for psychiatrists to be open to the transpersonal frame of reference.

At just this moment the person leading the group exercise said it was now time we came back to our bodies. I burst out laughing, for the remark could not have been more apt! The memory of that experience is etched as sharply in my mind now as the day it happened. It was my first taste of what popularly are called past lives.

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