Websites and therapists

Websites

• Isabel Clarke is the author of "Psychosis and Spirituality" and her website has a variety of articles, information about her books and other materials related to spiritual crisis. The closed yahoo discussion list on Psychosis and Spirituality can be accessed from the site by this link: http://www.isabelclarke.org/contact.php
• Soteria Network  Website promoting drug-free and minimum medication therapeutic environments for people experiencing "psychosis" or extreme states.
• Asylum Magazine This website from Asylum Magazine provides alternative sources of support for those undergoing crisis and includes things such as coming off psychiatric medication, hearing voices and and coping with self-harm and distress.
• 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
• Spiritual Competency 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
• International Spiritual Emergence Resource Website to help facilitate radical shifts in consciousness and alleviate distress due to profound spiritual transformation and spiritual emergency
• Rufus May is the "Doctor who heard voices", video about what voices are like, and other resources for more peaceful and helpful approaches to mental health problems
• Hazel Courtney is the author of two books on spiritual emergency. (See book list.)
• Hearing Voices is a mental health services user network, although it does not focus on spiritual experiences
• Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre & Society, Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Lampeter
• Spiritual Emergency , an anonymous blog with heaps of information and links
• MIND 0845 766 0163 in the UK
• SANE 0845 767 8000 in the UK

Therapists

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

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