Isabel Clarke
Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God
Isabel Clarke Publishing Nov 2008
- Why do people still believe in God and the supernatural in a scientific age?
- How come madness and mysticism are so similar?
- What can we learn from this?
- Psychological science offers an intriguing new perspective on these questions: one that relates the great challenges that face us, whether of ecology or fanaticism, to our basic limits as human beings.
- It is a perspective that places human beings in the context of relationship with a larger and ever mysterious whole.
My work spans two areas:
psychosis
and spirituality, and clinical
psychology. Both draw on the
research
based Interacting Cognitive Subsystems model of cognition, and both
seek to
bring spirituality into centre stage, founding it in cognitive and
other
research and theory, and regarding it as a central part of what it
means to be
human.
Events
Forthcoming talks, Conferences and Publications.
Workshop:
CBT for inpatient and crisis settings; a newly developed CBT approach to enable the individual to make sense of crisis, and enhance the milieu.
Isabel Clarke and Dr. Hannah Wilson.
This highly interactive day workshop brings to life the approach to inpatient and crisis work featured in our book: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units; working with clients, staff and the milieu. We delivered it as part of the the Pre Conference Workshop programme at the Edinburgh BABCP Conference in 2008.
We have been invited to repeat it at different venues.
Southampton/Eastleigh 11th November 2008.
Nottingham 16th January 2009
Exeter 2009 (date to be decided).