Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

by Mary Akimoto, William West Dr

Overview

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy critically examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counseling and psychotherapy. Authors Roy Moodley and William West highlight the challenges and changes in the field of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy by integrating current issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice. The book uniquely presents a range of accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing students, professional counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, researchers, and others who use multicultural counseling or transcultural psychotherapy as part of their professional practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761930464
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/28/2005
Series:	Multicultural Aspects of Counseling And Psychotherapy , #22
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Dedication Foreword - Thomas J. Csordas Series Editor's Foreword - Paul Pedersen Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION - Roy Moodley,William West PART I: INDIGENOUS PERFORMANCES, CULTURAL WORLDVIEWS AND SUPERNATURAL HEALING Chapter 1. Shamanic Performances: Healing through Magic and the Supernatural - Roy Moodley Chapter 2. Aboriginal Worldview of Healing: Inclusion, Bending, and Bridging - Anne Poonwassie, Ann Charter Chapter 3. The Djinns: A Sophisticated Conceptualization of Pathologies and Therapies - Toby Nathan Chapter 4. Crossing the Line Between Talking Therapies and Spiritual Healing - William West PART II: HEALING AND CURING: TRADITIONAL HEALERS AND HEALING Chapter 5. Indigenous Healers and Healing in a Modern World - Anne Solomon, Njoki Nathani Wane Chapter 6. Traditional Healing Practices in Southern Africa: Ancestral Spirits, Ritual Ceremonies, and Holistic Healing - Olaniyi Bojuwoye Chapter 7. Caribbean Healers and Healing: Awakening Spiritual and Cultural Healing Powers - Ronald Marshall Chapter 8. Latin American Healers and Healing: Healing as a Redefinition Process - Lilian Gonzalez Chevez Chapter 9. Traditional and Cultural Healing Among the Chinese - Joseph K. So Chapter 10. South Asian (Indian) Traditional Healing: Ayurveda, Shamanic and Sahaja Therapy - Manoj Kumar, Dinesh Bhugra, Jagmohan Singh PART III: SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION AND CULTURAL HEALING Chapter 11: Animism: Foundation of Traditional Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa - Clemmont E. Vontress Chapter 12: Hindu Spirituality and Healing Practices - Pittu Laungani Chapter 13: Inner Healing Prayer in "Spirit-Filled" Christianity - Fernando L. Garzon Chapter 14: Islam, Divinity and Spiritual Healing - Qulsoom Inayat Chapter 15: Jewish Healing, Spirituality, and Modern Psychology - Laura J. Praglin Chapter 16: Buddhist Moments in Psychotherapy - Roshni Daya PART IV: TRADITIONAL HEALING AND ITS CONTEMPORARY FORMULATIONS Chapter 17. Sweat Lodge as Psychotherapy: Congruence Between Traditional and Modern Healing - David Paul Smith Chapter 18. Maat: An African Centered Paradigm for Psychological and Spiritual Healing - Mekada Graham Chapter 19. Morita Therapy: A Philosophy of Yin/Yang Coexistence - Charles P. Chen Chapter 20. Pagan Approaches to Healing - Estelle Seymour Chapter 21. Yoga and Its Practice in Psychological Healing - Josna Pankhania Chapter 22. Holistic Healing, Paradigm Shift, and the New Age - Patricia A. Poulin, William West PART V: FINDING THE LINK BETWEEN TRADITIONAL HEALING AND THERAPY Chapter 23. Spiritual and Healing Approaches in Psychotherapeutic Practice - Robert N. Sollod Chapter 24: Psychotherapy as Ritual: Connecting the Concrete With the Symbolic - Michael Anderson Chapter 25: The Healing Path: What Can Counselors Learn From Aboriginal People About How to Heal? - Rod Mc Cormick Chapter 26: Herbalistas, Curandeiros and Bruxas: Valuable Lessons From Traditional Systems of Healing - Birdie J. Bezanson, Gary Foster, Susan James Chapter 27: Sharing Healing Secrets: Counselors and Traditional Healers in Conversation - Rebecca Gawile Sima, William West Index About the Editors About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"As the world enters a global era of contact and interdependency, it is essential that non-Western approaches to healing be given increased understanding, appreciation, and respect, for within these traditional approaches are profound and effective insights and techniques for healing the human mind. ... Roy Moodley and William West's edited volume, Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy, not only reminds us of this but also provides a substantive platform for changing directions in psychotherapy and counseling education, research, and practice in accord with the new demands and responsibilities of a global era. ... Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy, packed with 27 chapters on varied therapies used throughout the world, has the potential to alter the existing status quo in favor of new, innovative, and liberating training, research, and practice. ... In my opinion, Moodley and West's volume is the best available book-length publication for anyone seeking current knowledge about traditional and non-Western practices. ... If you are a student, professor, or practitioner of the talking cures, buy this book, read it, use it, and experience the difference it makes in your thoughts and actions. "— Anthony J. Marsella

Psyc CRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology

"As the world enters a global era of contact and interdependency, it is essential that non-Western approaches to healing be given increased understanding, appreciation, and respect, for within these traditional approaches are profound and effective insights and techniques for healing the human mind. ... Roy Moodley and William West's edited volume, Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy, not only reminds us of this but also provides a substantive platform for changing directions in psychotherapy and counseling education, research, and practice in accord with the new demands and responsibilities of a global era. ... Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy, packed with 27 chapters on varied therapies used throughout the world, has the potential to alter the existing status quo in favor of new, innovative, and liberating training, research, and practice. ... In my opinion, Moodley and West's volume is the best available book-length publication for anyone seeking current knowledge about traditional and non-Western practices. ... If you are a student, professor, or practitioner of the talking cures, buy this book, read it, use it, and experience the difference it makes in your thoughts and actions."

Psyc CRITIQUES (Contemporary Psychology), APA, November 15, 2005 - Anthony J. Marsella

"Recent years have also seen a flood of books on "cultural competence" and related issues for clinicians. This one broadens the field and stakes out its own territory as it includes the traditional healing practices of groups around the globe, and eventouches on contemporary "alternative" and "integrative" healing methods. This compendium should be a useful resource for investigators, practitioners and students dealing with ethnic minorities as well as isolated populations."

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