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Addressing Issues of Spirituality and Religion in Psychotherapy
with Edward P. Shafranske, PhD, ABPP
Part of the Spirituality APA Psychotherapy Video Series

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ITEM #: 4310743
ISBN: 1-59147-377-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-377-0
RUNNING TIME: Over 100 minutes
FORMAT: DVD

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ABOUT THE VIDEO

In Addressing Issues of Spirituality and Religion in Psychotherapy, Dr. Edward P. Shafranske demonstrates his psychoanalytic therapeutic approach to handling issues of spirituality and religion within the context of therapy. This approach treats the client's beliefs with respect and acceptance, allowing the therapeutic work to incorporate the client's spiritual and religious life into the therapy.

In this session, Dr. Shafranske works with a man in his 20s who is a devout Christian, but who seems to hide behind his beliefs in the face of conflict, particularly to avoid direct emotional experience. Dr. Shafranske helps the young man to move from a cognitive to an affective understanding of how he uses religion in part as a defense mechanism as well as an authentic expression of faith. Dr. Shafranske concludes that over time in successful treatment, the patient would transform his God-representations and would more fully integrate his religious beliefs into his life.

ABOUT THE APPROACH

Dr. Shafranske's therapeutic approach emphasizes the development of insight and aims for greater integration of cognitive and emotional experiences, assisting clients to better attain their personal desires by resolving intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts and modifying defenses. Drawing substantively upon a unified composite theory of psychoanalysis, he pays close attention to unconscious mental processes and defenses, inferred in the client's free associations, reflected in the "here and now" of the therapy interaction, and through an analysis of the "in vivo" experience of transference.

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ABOUT THE THERAPIST

Edward P. Shafranske, PhD, ABPP, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is professor and director of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University. He is a well-known contributor to the psychology of religion, authoring over 40 papers and chapters and lecturing in North America and Europe as well as serving two terms as president of APA Division 36 (Psychology of Religion). He served as editor of Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology, associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Psychology, coeditor of Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy, and coauthor of Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach. He was recipient of the William C. Bier Award and Distinguished Service Award (presented by Division 36) and was named Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow by Pepperdine University.

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Corbett, L. (1997). The religious function of the psyche. New York: Routledge.
  • Miller, W. R. (1999). Integrating spirituality into treatment: Resources for practitioners. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Nielsen, S. L., Johnson, W. B., & Ellis, A. (2001). Counseling and psychotherapy with religious persons: A rational emotive behavior therapy approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Pargament K. I. (1997). The psychology of religion and coping. New York: Guilford.
  • Richards, I. S., & Bergin, A. E. (2005). A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Richards P. S., & Bergin, A. E. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of psychotherapy and religious diversity. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Richards, S. & Bergin, A. E. (Eds.). (2004). Religion and psychotherapy: A casebook. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Randour, M. L. (Ed.). (1993). Exploring sacred landscapes. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Rizzuto, A.-M. (2005). Psychoanalytic considerations about spiritually oriented psychotherapy. In L. Sperry & E. P. Shafranske, (Eds.), Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy (pp. 31–50). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Shafranske, E. P. (2004). A psychodynamic case study. In Richards, S. & Bergin, A. E. (Eds.), Religion and psychotherapy: A casebook (153–170). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Shafranske, E. P. (2005). A psychoanalytic approach to spiritually-oriented psychotherapy. In L. Sperry & E. P. Shafranske, (Eds.), Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy (pp. 105–130). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Sorenson, R. L. (2004). Minding spirituality. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
  • Shafranske, E. P. (Ed.). (1996). Religion and the clinical practice of psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Shafranske, E. P. (in press). Psychology of religion in clinical and counseling psychology. In R. Paloutzian & C. Park (Eds.), The handbook of the psychology of religion. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Sperry, L. (2001). Spirituality in clinical practice. Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge.
  • Sperry, L. & Shafranske, E. P. (Eds.). (2005). Spiritually oriented psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Tan, S.-Y. (1996). Religion in clinical practice: Implicit and explicit integration. In E. P. Shafranske (Ed.), Religion and the clinical practice of psychology (pp. 365–387). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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