Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy

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

Key Features:

o Contributes to the wider debates about ethnic minority health care by focusing on how ethnic minority groups construct illness perceptions and the kinds of treatments they expect to solve health and mental health problems

o Analyzes traditional healing of racial, ethnic, and religious groups living in the United States, Canada, and Britain to consider the diffusion of healing practices across cultural boundaries

o Explores contemporary alternative health care movements such as paganism, New Age Spirituality and healing, transcendental meditation, and new religious movements to increase the knowledge and capacity of clinical expertise of students studying in this field

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying multicultural counselling or psychotherapy. The book is also a valuable resource for academics, researchers, psychotherapists, counsellors, and other practitioners.

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 McCormick
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