A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
This multi-author clinical volume examines spirituality's place in psychiatric understanding and care, including spiritual assessment, varied religious traditions, psychosis, psychotherapy, ethics, and professional practice. It asks clinicians to take meaning and belief seriously without abandoning diagnostic responsibility or evidence-based care.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
This territory needs a professional bridge that refuses the false choice between spiritual meaning and psychiatric care. The book gives clinicians and careful readers a framework for listening respectfully while still attending to impairment, risk, differential explanation, and professional boundaries.
Good starting place if…
You are a clinician, spiritual-care provider, ministry leader, or serious reader seeking a broad professional account of how spirituality can be addressed responsibly in mental-health care.
Know before you begin…
This is a specialist edited textbook, not a quick guide for interpreting your own experience. Contributors and chapters do not necessarily share one theological or psychiatric view. Spiritual sensitivity does not mean validating every supernatural explanation, and psychiatric care should not erase a person's faith, culture, or meaning.