A Railway Junction, Two Saints and a Queen: Time and Place in Stories of Psycho-Spiritual Transformation

Autor/in	Macaskie, Jane
Titel	A Railway Junction, Two Saints and a Queen: Time and Place in Stories of Psycho-Spiritual Transformation
Quelle	In: British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 44 (2016) 3, S.325-334 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0306-9885
DOI	10.1080/03069885.2016.1169365
Schlagwörter	Spiritual Development; Therapy; Imagination; History; Cognitive Restructuring; Story Telling; Counselor Client Relationship; Foreign Countries; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Therapie; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	Bakhtin's [(1981). "The dialogic imagination: Four essays." (C. Emerson & M. Holquist, Trans. M. Holquist, Ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press] concept of the chronotope is used as a lens to view time and place in stories of psycho-spiritual transformation in research and therapy. Distinctions between spirituality, psycho-spirituality and the transpersonal are discussed and the importance of dialogue between psychological and spiritual perspectives is suggested. The author's dream-inspired journey to the small Spanish town of Medina del Campo and subsequent use of active imagination practices to amplify its symbolic resonances are described. Historical associations with the sixteenth-century mystics St Teresa of Ávila and St John of the Cross led to an appreciation of the relevance of their spiritual accounts for research into experiences of psycho-spiritual transformation. It is suggested that a psycho-spiritual therapeutic practice grounded in the chronotopes of clients' stories is open to implicit meanings enfolded in images which may be transformational for storyteller and listener. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01