Sourcebook for Helping People In Spiritual Emergency. This item is unavailable.Sourcebook for Helping People In Spiritual Emergency

The first book written to define "Spiritual Emergency" as coined by Stan Grof, MD and Christina Grof.  It traces the history of how these crises have been defined in ancient times as well as by modern psychology/psychiatry.  Bragdon covers when this crisis is most likely to happen and why, criteria for its identification and how to differentiate it from categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.  Of practical help is a checklist for the kind of treatment and environment a person needs who is going through the transformative episode.  Articles of interest can be found in appendices as well as resources for help.  Psychiatry/Spirituality

Emma Bragdon, PhD is a Transpersonal psychologist.  She has written 6 books on processes related to spiritual emergence, and co-produced two documentary films on topics related to Spiritism.  She is the Director of the Foundation for Energy Therapies, a charitable company dedicated to research and education.  She is also a consultant and leads workshops on themes related to Spiritual Emergency and also Spiritism.   She lives in Vermont.