Isabel Clarke – Psychosis and spirituality

Forthcoming book: "Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God". To be published by O Books later this year! More details soon.

2008 Conferences and talks

• Tauton Association for Psychodynamics. OTHER DIMENSIONS OF THE PSYCHE? An Enquiry into Spirituality, Counselling and Psychotherapy
  Talk title: Across the Threshold: the Role of Spirituality in the Journey of Life
  Saturday 15th March 2008, 9.15 am – 4.30 pm,
  TACCHI-MORRIS ARTS CENTRE. SCHOOL ROAD TAUNTON TA2 8PD.
  £75 for the day including coffee, lunch & tea. Certificate of Attendance provided as evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
  Bookstall offering 10% discount on usual prices.
  Please contact the TAP Admin Sec, Vanessa Archer, for a full programme and booking form:
  Telephone:  01823 665798
  Email:  tap@backways.co.uk
  
• Confer Conference in London  Friday 30th and Saturday 31st May 2008.  Spiritual Narratives in Psychotherapy: working with Spiritual Issues in Clinical Practice.
  Talk: Revisiting the concepts: framing anomolous experience; psychosis; spiritual crisis etc. in non stigmatising ways for effective therapeutic approaches.
  Workshop: Reaching out beyond the Threshold. What do you say?
  
• Bridge Pastoral Foundation. Annual Conference 2008.
  Where Two Worlds Meet. A Psychologist's perspective on Spirituality.
  3 Keynotes:
  Encounter with the Threshold. A Psychological Understanding of Spirituality.
  Crossing the Threshold. Implications for the personal journey and personal growth.
  Managing the Threshold. Working with those who have lost their way.
  28th July – 1st August.
  Hayes Conference Centre, Derbyshire.
  www.bridgepastoral.org.uk
  

Publications

• Information about the edited book: "Psychosis and Spirituality: exploring the new frontier" Whurr.  2001
• Madness and Mysticism: clarifying the mystery. Network. The Scientific and Medical Network Review. 72, 11 - 14.  2000
• Psychosis and Spirituality; finding a language. Changes. 18, 3, 208-214 2000
• Psychosis and Spirituality 2000 and 2001.  Full reports of University of Southampton conferences.
• Is there anything there? The problem of Spirituality considered, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2, 261-266, 2002.  (Special issue: "Taking Spirituality Seriously")
• Critical discussion of the above issue: The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3, 69-73 2003.
• Paper given as part of Symposium "Theory of Mind: Cross-Cultural and Transpersonal Perspectives", BPS Conference 2005, entitled The Clinical Perspective; grounding the transpersonal in Cognitive Theory
• "Psychosis and Spirituality: the journey of an idea".  Article requested for Royal College of Psychiatrists Spirituality Special Interest Group Newsletter.  June 2006. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/specialinterestgroups/spirituality.aspx

See also the site for articles arising from the last Southampton Conference.

Psychosis and Spirituality Discussion List

There is a private e-mail list, the psychosisspirituality yahoo group,  for anyone who would like to engage in discussion of these issues: see the application form

For anyone undergoing a spiritual crisis, or who is supporting someone who is, I thoroughly recommend the spiritual crisis network website.

Past Conferences and Talks

• Presentation  given at the "Ways of Knowing " Conference, Winchester, 2nd - 4th September  2005.
• Presentation given at BPS Transpersonal Conference, September 2005. "Psychic Phenomena and the Relational Mind"
• Seeing Angels, Hearing Voices - Mini Conference. Cambridge. November 10th 2005.
• ICS Day Conference in Hertfordshire.  24th November 2005.
  ICS and Severe Mental Health Problems
   
  
• Quaker Universalists Gathering at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre near Birmingham.
  Title of talk: "Spirituality at the Heart of Being Human". Saturday April 1st. 2006
• Institute of Nursing and Midwifery Mental Health Nursing Forum. University of Brighton.
   Conference: Encompassing the Spiritual Dimension in Recovery.  Greynore Hall, Eastbourne. (see also Programme)
  Talk: "Enabling Recovery and Spiritual Awareness Among Mental Health Staff." Wednesday April. 12th 2006
• ISPSS-UK Conference in London.  Spirituality and Psychosis: Continuity and Discontinuity. Report of conference for The Friend magazine  ISPS-UK  Conference programme.
  Talk: "Continuity and Discontinuity: Cognitive Science and Psychotherapeutic perspectives"  Friday 28th April.  2006
•  Seminar given as part of a series on 'postive psychology and the cognitive science of religion'. University of Oxford.
  (NB 2.7 Mbyte file!) “A cognitive perspective on spirituality - with a little help from psychosis"
  
  

ICS and Psychosis

• Introducing Further Developments Towards an ICS Formulation of Psychosis: A Comment on Gumley, A., White, C.A. & Power, K.  'An Interacting Cognitive Subsystems Model of Relapse and the Course of Psychosis.' Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 9, pp
• Chapter 4, "Case experience from a Rehabilitation Service", pp 69-78 in The Case Study Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of Psychosis  Edited by David Kingdon and Douglas Turkington. Wiley 2002.

The Web of Connection and the New Human Story

• The primacy of connectivity (with Chris Clarke), Network. The Scientific and Medical Network Review, 76, 4 - 6, 2001
• The New Human Story, GreenSpirit Journal, Spring 2004, pp. 18-21
• "There is A Crack in Everything: That's How the Light Gets In"  Chapter in "Ways of Knowing" 2005.  Edited Chris Clarke. Imprint Academic.

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