In The Poetry of Spirituality, Elizabeth (Eli) Dickson explores the elusive and often controversial topic of contemporary spirituality from several unique perspectives.  First, she gives a structure for understanding spirituality (as distinct from religion) by using spiritual emotions as her framework: awe, faith, love, compassion, joy and gratitude.  Then she goes beyond helping us understand spirituality in a left-brain, intellectual way. With a focus on spiritual emotions, she emphasizes the experiential dimension, how spirituality actually feels to us personally. In this sense, the book is about the “poetry” of spirituality—how words can really take us to the actual experience.  And finally, spirituality is seen through the eyes of a psychotherapist, someone who witnesses how spiritual emotions come alive in the minute-by-minute interactions of the psychotherapy hour and how essential these emotions can be in helping clients heal and grow. By examining spirituality and psychotherapy together, Eli Dickson sets up a different lens through which to view psychotherapy. She explains in a refreshingly new way why psychotherapy works and what gives it its power.

The Poetry of Spirituality: As Seen Through the Eyes of a Psychotherapist

Dickson, Elizabeth

Religion & Spirituality

Eli Dickson

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The Poetry of Spirituality: As Seen Through the Eyes of a Psychotherapist