Wrestling with Our Inner Angels
Faith, Mental Illness, and the Journey to Wholeness
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Wrestling with Our Inner Angels is Nancy Kehoe's compelling, intimate, and moving story of how she brought her background as a psychologist and a nun in the Religious of the Sacred Heart to bear in the groups she formed to explore the role of faith and spirituality in their treatment - and in their lives. Through fascinating stories of her own spiritual journey, she gives readers of all backgrounds and interests new insights into the inner lives of the mentally ill and new ways of thinking about the role of spirituality and faith in all our lives.
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Nancy Kehoe
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Psychologie Psychology Psychotherapie u. Beratung Psychotherapy & Counseling Religion & Theology Religion u. Theologie Spiritualität u. spirituelles Wachstum Spirituality & Spiritual Growth
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The shadow of Freud and his view of religion as illusion stilllooms over psychotherapy, making it problematic for therapists toengage their clients about a subject that can be of greatimportance and potential benefit. Because she is both a nun and aclinician, author Kehoe can draw on both her psychological andreligious training to approach with insight and sensitivity therole of belief and motivation in the lives of people troubled bymental illness. Neither illusion nor panacea, religious beliefhelps people organize their lives and make decisions. Kehoe haslistened for years to people with illness, and she shares theircompelling stories. She also discloses her own wrestling with innerreligious promptings and their influence in her own choices. Thisbook will be most helpful to other professionals in the field, butits honesty and humility also make it useful for anyone interestedin faith and mental illness, particularly anyone with an emotionalstake in the difficulties of mental illness. (June)(Publishers Weekly, May 11, 2009)
"Wrestling With Our Inner Angels is an importantbook...All concerned with faith, mental health and the journey towholeness -- whether from a spiritual-religious or a psychologicalperspective -- will not only enjoy reading this book but beencouraged to reflect more deeply on the author's thesis."(America magazine October 26, 2009)
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