Mind, State and Society examines the reforms in psychiatry and mental health services in Britain during 1960-2010, when de-institutionalisation and community care coincided with the increasing dominance of ideologies of social liberalism, identity politics and neoliberal economics. Featuring contributions from leading academics, policymakers, mental health clinicians, service users and carers, it offers a rich and integrated picture of mental health,...

"A disabled woman questions her faith, a patient wrestles with his sexuality in conflict with religious doctrine, an elderly patient looks to her therapist for comfort of the end of her life. Many practitioners hesitate to address these issues for fear of imposing their own values on a patient, or of crossing ethical boundaries, or out of recognition of their limited expertise. This text addresses a recognized need in the profession by gathering information...

A warm, encouraging guide to exploring your spiritual secrets and finding balance in your life. This is a landmark book on spiritual self-exploration and inner change as the way to healing. As director of one of the country's foremost centers for complementary medicine and spiritual care, the Reverend Dennis Kenny is a leading expert on the body-mind-spirit connection. In Promise of the Soul, Kenny shows that all of us have promises (or covenants)...

This treatise argues that the quest for the spirit is not a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of basic human impulses, rooted in our biological, psychological and social nature. It presents the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal people throughout the world.

"The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession, however, Mary Keller approaches the spirit possession of women as a historian of religion informed by postcolonial theory...

What is Pa divination in Nigeria? Who or what is Mami Water? Does a single African spirituality exist across all indigenous cultures, even after their contact with Western religions such as Christianity? In this illustrated book, a perfect introduction to the fascinating world of African religion, spirituality, and cosmology, writers from Margaret R. Miles and Kathleen O'Brien Wicker to Ogbu Kalu and Abdulkader I. Tayob lead us into discussions of...

"With each generation, we have drifted further and further away from our ability to recognize and connect with the source of our original design. In this modern world, we spend our attention in ways that benefit the powers that be, and not ourselves or the earth. But what if we called upon the knowledge of our roots to move us forward, individually and collectively as a society? Direct descendant of Grandpa Chief Sitting Bull and American Lakota spiritual...