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A Handbook For People in Crisis

FIRST CONTACTS: For People in Crises & Spiritual Emergencies”: This is Handbook about and for 'People Experiencing Various Sorts of Psychological, Emotional & Spiritual Crisis, Spiritual Emergence Processes, Spiritual Emergencies, and also for their Carers'. The contents list of the various chapters is indicated below.

CONTENTS

 

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Introduction

PART ONE
Types of Crisis
Emergency Situations
Identifying a Person in Crisis
Possible Indications or Symptoms of People in Crisis
Levels of Crisis
Making Contact and Staying in Contact
What to Do at First
Use of Psychotherapy
Appropriate Action
Other Ways of Working With A Crisis Forming a Crisis Group
Forming a Community Around a Person in Crisis
Some Basic Strategies
A “Zen” Space
Meditation & Mindfulness
Transformative Processes

PART TWO
Spiritual Emergencies
Criteria to Help Define a Spiritual Emergency
Symptoms or Types of Spiritual Emergence Processes
Crisis as seen in Transformational Terms
Spiritual Technologies and Toolkits
Madness seen Differently

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Some Self-Help Exercises
   Meditation: The Body That Brought Me Here
   Meditation: The Castle of the Spirit
   Exercise: Rebuilding your Auric Boundary
   Mediation: Dynamic Meditation
   Exercise: Death Fantasies and How They Stop You Living
   Exercise: The Felt Sense of Self
   Meditation: A Descent into the Dark
Basic Spiritual Principles
Recovery and Integration
The Spirit of the Body& the Body of the Spirit
Crucial Support Issues
Some Caveats
The Rainbow
Transformation & Enlightenment
Quotations

ADDENDA
Resource List
Book List
Appendix: Spiritual Emergencies in DSM4 : Internet
Appendix 2: Different Facets of the Sense of Self
About the Author

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If you really want to read a draft or a proof of the book, as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, please download it by clicking here. This is due to be published in 2010.
This is also available in other formats by contacting Courtenay Young at: enquiries'at'courtenay-young.com (Please replace the 'at' with an @). Thank You

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