Isabel Clarke
Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God
Isabel Clarke Out Now!
- 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.
The book is launched!
Do read it (order it from the library; order it from your local bookshop; get a copy through the GreenSpirit book service or from Amazon).
Let me know what you think!
If you have a local group interested in spiritual, therapy, mental health or
related topics that would like a talk on it – do get in touch with
me.
Events
Forthcoming talks, Conferences and Publications.
First Conference on Health, Mental Health and Exceptional Human Experiences, Monday 7th September, 2009
At this conference, hosted by Liverpool Hope University on I will be giving a talk, title: "Transformative and/or destructive: Exceptional experiences from the clinical perspective".More details
Confer 'Landscapes of the Mind Conference' 25th–27th September at the Eden Project, Cornwall
I will be giving the following talk: "What we do to the Earth, we do to Ourselves"The ecological crisis is a crisis of relationship. Our abusive relationship with the earth, threatening the future of our species, also distorts us, causing pain, which we dull by addictions that fuel reckless consumption. Accepting and understanding that we are caught between self consciousness and embededness in relationship opens our capacity to expand in love not cut off in addiction.
More details
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.
Recent publications.
Isabel Clarke, Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God, O Books, 2008Clarke, I. & Wilson, H.Eds. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Units; working with clients, staff and the milieu. London: Routledge.