Websites  Therapists  Videos  Articles  Books

  Websites

•  www.scispirit.com/psychosis_spirituality Through this website it is possible to join a discussion group which also acts as something of a support group
•  www.mentalhealth-wellbeing-spirituality-conference.info This is a website of resource materials being developed following a NHS conference held in Dundee in August 2004
•  www.spiritualcompetency.com This is the website of David Lukoff, President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, USA. He is co-author of the diagnostic manual DSM-IV category 'Religious or Spiritual Problem' and an authority on spiritual emergency
•  www.kaia.ca/ISER_Home.php International Spiritual Emergence Resource website to help facilitate radical shifts in consciousness and alleviate distress due to profound spiritual transformation and spiritual emergency
•  www.hazelcourteney.com Hazel Courtney is the author of two books on spiritual emergency. (See book list.)
•  www.hearing-voices.org is a mental health services user network, although it does not focus on spiritual experiences
•  www.alisterhardyreligiousexperience.co.uk , the website of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre & Society, Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Lampeter
•  http://spiritualemergency.blogspot.com , an anonymous blog with heaps of information and links
•  www.mind.org.uk 0845 766 0163 in the UK
•  www.sane.org.uk 0845 767 8000 in the UK

Although we can't recommend individual therapists, here are some lists to help you: 

• The British Psychological Society http://www.bps.org.uk/e-services/find-a-psychologist/directory.cfm
• The UK Council for Psychotherapists http://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find_a_therapist.html 
• The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP  http://www.bacp.co.uk/seeking_therapist/index.html  
• The British Confederation of Psychotherapists BCP http://www.bcp.org.uk/finding_a_therapist.html  

Videos

•  Spiritual Emergency, A new documentary film on DVD by Kaia Nightingale (Spiritual Emergence Service, Canada) - a 40 minute documentary validating unusual experiences during spiritual emergence, alerting health professionals to the signs. It illustrates the predicament of people who find themselves in spiritual crisis. There is little help available. With information and support, people can move through profound transformation, emerging with new skills and abilities.
•  "Evolving Minds" An exploration of the alternatives to psychiatry and the links between psychosis and spirituality. Produced by Mel Gunasena and Undercurrents Old Telephone Exchange Pier Street, Swansea SA1 1RY Tel: + 44 (0) 1792 455900 hello@undercurrents.org www.undercurrents.org/minds
•  "Hard to Believe", a film about spirituality and mental health produced by Mind in Croydon 26 Pampisford Road, Purley Surrey, CR8 2NE Tel:+44 (0) 20 8668 2210 admin@mindincroydon.org.uk www.mindincroydon.org.uk 

Articles

•  Isabel Clarke (ed) The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling & Psychotherapy Special Issue: Taking Spirituality Seriously vol 2, no 4, winter 2002
•  David Lukoff, "From Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Problem: the transpersonal roots of the new DSM IV category", Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1998 Vol.38, pp21-50
•  Deborah Cornah, The impact of spirituality on mental health. A literature review, Mental Health Foundation, June 2006

Books

•  Janet Adler, Arching Backwards: The mystical initiation of a contemporary woman, Inner Traditions International 1995
•  Emma Bragdon, A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems (first published as A Sourcebook for Helping People in Spiritual Emergency) LighteningUp Press 1988 
•  Mariana Caplan, Halfway up the Mountain- The error of premature claims to enlightenment, Hohm Press 1999
•  Isabel Clarke (ed), Psychosis and Spirituality: Exploring the new frontier, With contributions from : Peter Chadwick; Gordon Claridge; Chris Clarke; Isabel Clarke; Neil Douglas-Klotz; Peter Fenwick; Richard House; Mike Jackson; David Kingdon; Nigel Mills; Emmanuelle Peters; Shanaya Rathod; Ron Siddle; Nathalie Tobert, Whurr 2001
•  Hazel Courteney, Divine Intervention, CICO Books 2002
•  Hazel Courteney, The Evidence for the Sixth Sense , Cico Books 2005
•  Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening, New Age Bantam Books 1990
•  Jennifer Elam, Dancing with God Through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness, Way Opens Press 2002
•  Bonnie Greenwell, Energies of Transformation: A guide to the Kundalini Process, Shakti River Press 1995
•  Stanislav & Christina Grof (eds), Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, With contributions from : R.D Laing, Roberto Assagioli, John Weir Perry, Ram Dass, Lee Sanella, Jack Kornfield, Paul Rebillot, Holgar Kalweit, Anne Armstrong, Keith Thompson and others. Penguin Putnam 1989
•  Stanislav & Christina Grof, The Stormy Search for the Self, A guide to personal growth through transformational crisis , Penguin Putnam 1990 
•  Hilary Hart, The Unknown She: Eight faces of an emerging consciousness, Golden Sufi Center 2004
•  Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy Now the Laundry: How the heart grows wise on the spiritual path, Bantam books 2000
•  Dr Philip Thomas and Rufus May, Medication, available via http://www.hearing-voices.org/publications.htm (unfortunately it is not online)
•  John Lilly, The Centre of the Cyclone, Marion Boyars, 1973
•  John Weir Perry, The self in Psychotic process, 
•  John Weir Perry, The Far Side of Madness, Prentice-Hall 1974
•  John Weir Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, State University of New York Press 1999
•  Edward M Podvoll, Recovering Sanity: a compassionate approach to understanding and treating psychosis, Shambala 2003
•  Lee Sannella, The Kundalini Experience: Psychosis or Transcendence? Integral Publishing 1992
•  Lauren Slater, Welcome to my Country: a therapist's memoir of madness, Hamish Hamilton 1996
•  Irina Tweedie, Daughter of Fire.  A diary of a spiritual training with a Sufi master,. Golden Sufi centre 1986
•  Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughan (eds), Paths Beyond Ego: The transpersonal vision, Tarcher/Putnam 1993
•  Frances Vaughan, Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through spiritual illusions, Quest Books 1995

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