Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy (H) by Len Sperry & Edward P. Shafranske

Author:Len Sperry & Edward P. Shafranske [Len Sperry and Edward P. Shafranske]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2004-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

For the pregnant girls in the IPT-S group, the relationship with the new baby, the father of their baby, and their own mother emerged as primary opportunities for spiritual growth. Becoming a mother, in the view of IPT-S, is an interpersonal transition that carries an absolute charge to evolve in specific ways: to protect, to claim and uphold moral authority, to love without limits, and to appreciate one’s own mother. The girls came to IPT-S with a sense of its major tenets: Relationships are divine vehicles for spiritual growth, purposefully architected. The pregnant girls took to IPT-S, used it toward their own spiritual growth, and were measurably less depressed by the end of 12 weeks of treatment. The girls simply understood that the people who enter our lives are there for us, and we are there for them, to join in a process of spiritual growth. Recall, however, that not all of the girls considered themselves to be spiritual nor used spiritual language.

IPT-S may be one way of engaging the suffering that arises in interpersonal relationship toward spiritual growth. The psychological experience that comes through our relationships marks spiritual growth. Love in this sense is more than a palatable emotion; it reveals that we are in consort with the laws of the Creator. Anger, rage, and depression show us the door to spiritual growth. Many religious denominations comfortably link psychological emotion and spiritual reality. Given this apparently universal understanding, it might benefit our clients to see emotion as revelation of the more fundamental spiritual Truth.

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