psychiatry

[Connie Miller]

Adam

This study bring up the questions of:

With all the diffferent alternative therapies along with the many spiritual exercises and forms of meditation today, are psychiatrists are more limited in their approaches to the client as opposed to other health care professionals.? 

Does the psychiatrist traditionally take a more receptive role with the client? The techniques of free association, psychodrama, dream work, hypnotic age regression, breathwork are all techniques that allow the unconscious to rise to the surface and help one to access their spontaniety and be able to "let go".

What is the presenting issue that the client brings into the session?

Is the client defining the presenting issue to be religious and/or 
spiritual? For example, an individual may be seeking clarity regarding 
his/her relationship with a priest or rabbi?

Is the presenting issue not overtly spiritual in nature, but leads to 
source conflicts that are? For example, someone may be exploring a deep 
fear of abandonment and is searching for support in the living of 
his/her life,and wanting to become aware of a comforting spiritual presence. 

Is the individual coming in for exclusively spiritual counseling? 

At the other end of the spectrum are religious counselors who have a
specific dogma of belief and a mission to save or convert clients, as well as
therapists who have deeply personal unresolved spiritual conflicts.

Whether conscious or not, such a therapeutic stance toward clients will
inhibit the client’s full exploration of their feelings, doubts, fears and
longings.
My thoughts, Blessings, Connie

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