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Monika Renz - Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying - 9781785920301 - V9781785920301
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Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying

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Description for Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying Paperback. .
Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will be of valuable use to professionals working in palliative and spiritual care, such as spiritual caregivers, therapists, nurses, and physicians. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785920301
SKU
V9781785920301
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Monika Renz
Monika Renz holds doctorates in psychopathology and theology from the universities of Zurich, Fribourg, and Innsbruck. She is head of the psycho-oncology department at Kantonsspital St. Gallen, where she has been a practicing music therapist, psychotherapist and spiritual counsellor since 1998. She is the author of a number of books drawing on her research into dying, spirituality and spiritual care. ... Read more

Reviews for Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying
There is a great value for the patient in these theological musings from this music therapist, psychotherapist, and spiritual counsellor. They have the power to lift us beyond fear and pain. Renz unravels this mode of thinking. it can assist carers and medical staff, because it facilitates the work of injecting new hope and comfort into the milieu of the ... Read more

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