“Depression as a Spiritual Journey” is the first book to address depression as a spiritual journey in the context of medication and counselling. It serves as an invitation to reframe depression in a new way. Many people resist embracing medication as part of the healing process. Others confuse emotional and mental dis-ease. What is the difference between melancholia and clinical depression? Why do people today suffer from an assortment of depressions rather than good old- fashioned melancholia? What is the difference between psychosis and depression, or the dark night of the soul and depression? What criteria do we use to make these distinctions? Stephanie Sorrell defines some of these distinctions and unearths many of our mindsets that shape our ambivalent attitude to depression. More than anything, Stephanie validates depression as a valuable and integral part of the journey with all its gains, losses and insight. She does not provide easy answers, but encourages the reader to face the very real challenge of working with depression as a spiritual guide and teacher.
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This is a valuable book offering an insightful understanding of depression. It is not a self help book in the ordinary sense and needs to be read by individuals who are committed to an inside learning and understanding to the nature of suffering. –Anne Welsh, Senior Staff member Institute of Psychosynthesis. London. Founder and Director. Synthesis-in-the-City
This book brings the darkness of depression up into the light, illuminating its value and showing how it can contribute to soul growth. It is full of windows into the nature of depression and how it can be seen in a positive light as a contributor to our spiritual journey. Its deep wisdom comes from an author who, like Persephone, has lived for spells in the underworld, but has been able to return and share some valuable insights garnered from that world. –Elizabeth Medler, Editor of New Vision
In re-contextualising Depression as a Spiritual Journey, Stephanie Sorrel’s serious and radical book gives patients and health professionals a handbook of hope. –Roger Evans, Co founder and Director of The Institute of Psychosynthesis, co author of The Creative Manager with Peter Russell
About the Author
Stephanie Sorrell has an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology, has acted as a spiritual counsellor for 20 years and works as a Clinical Support Worker in Furness General Hospital, England. Previous titles are, Trusting the Process (2000) 1- 903074-04-5 and The River That Knows The Way (1997) 0 9531597 01
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