In this video, Professor David Lukoff shares his personal experience of spiritual emergence and details how his lived experience propelled him into a life researching the distinctions between psychosis and a spiritual crisis, work that eventually led to the DSM-IV accepting the new category of ‘Spiritual Emergency’.
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David Lukoff is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, and a licensed psychologist in California whose areas of expertise include spiritual issues in clinical practice, treatment of psychotic disorders, and ethnic and on cultural issues that affect utilization of mental health services. He is author or coauthor of 80 articles and chapters on spiritual issues in mental health services, one of which won the Exemplary Paper award from the Templeton Foundation. He is co-author of the DSM-IV category Religious or Spiritual Problem.
This video presentation is from Spiritual Threads in Psychotherapeutic Work. To find out more about this module click here.
