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Spirituality and healing
A/Professor David Tacey

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Spirituality has arisen as a major item on the agenda of the therapy and healing professions not because university professors have had conversion experiences, but because suffering clients want to bring this important but often vaguely defined concept into the therapeutic situation. Today we can speak of a client-led or grassroots recovery of the spiritual, and it has taken many people by surprise. Up until recently, 'spirituality' was frowned upon, especially in Australia, as an activity linked more to mental illness and delusional thinking, than to health and recovery. But some forms of spirituality, at least, can be said to be positive and life-enhancing, often playing a major role in the experience of healing and wholeness. What is spirituality, and why does it have therapeutic or healing effects in clinical contexts?

WORLD DREAMING: WORLD CONGRESS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
24-28 August 2011 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Darling Harbour, Australia.
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A/Professor David Tacey

David Tacey PhD. teaches Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Literary Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His special interest is the search for meaning in the contemporary world. He is the author of twelve books on spirituality and depth psychology. His books include Re-Enchantment: The New Australian Spirituality (2000), The Spirituality Revolution (2003) and Edge of the Sacred (2009). He is the author of The Jung Reader (2011) and The Idea of the Numinous (2006). His most recent book is on spirituality and healing, and is called Gods and Diseases (Sydney: Harper Collins, 2011) and his writings have been translated into several languages, including Cantonese, Korean, Spanish and French.