Increasing numbers of people are moving beyond psychological therapy to seek alternative spiritual perspectives to medical and mental health care such as yoga and meditation. The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders provides leading-edge theoretical perspectives and practical applications by recognized experts in positive and integrative psychotherapy. Readers will find helpful illustrations of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs, tables, figures, and detailed case studies that illustrate the process.

Sharon G Mijares, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa

About the Editors. Contributors. Moore, Foreword. Acknowledgments. Mijares & Khalsa, Introduction. Mack, Approaching Extraordinary Experiences in the Mental Health Field. Judy, Seasons of Change: Adjustment Disorders As Summons to New Life Structure. Vega, Breathing into Fear: Psychospiritual Approaches for Treating Anxiety. Mijares, Sacred Wounding: Traumatic Openings to the Larger Self. Johnston & Antares, Eating Disorders As Messengers from the Soul. Khalsa, Getting Focused in an Age of Distraction: Approaches to Attentional Disorders Using the Humanology of Yogi Bhajan. Ross, Dissociative Identity Disorder and Psychospiritual Perspectives. Khalsa, Alternative Treatments for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders. Drake & Lewis, Assessment and Treatment of Conduct Disorders: A Moral Reasoning Model and Psychospiritual Approach. Rediger, Bipolar Disorder and Western Anosognosia. Lukoff, Spiritual and Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotic Disorders. Hammerle, Journey into the Heart: Sufi Ways for Healing Depression. Schwartz et al., Mindful Awareness and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Integrating Psychospiritual and Biological Approaches to Mental Health with a Focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Kleinplatz & Krippner, Spirituality and Sexuality: Celebrating Erotic Transcendence and Spiritual Embodiment. Khalsa, An Integrative Medical Approach to Alzheimer's Disease. Grayson & Kerievsky, The Phenomenon of Centers Supporting Spiritual Approaches to Psychotherapy. Index.