Psychologists Turning to Religion to Invigurate their Practice
Why and how do clinical psychologists turn to religious and spiritual traditions? What kind of new relations between religion and psychology emerge in this process of re-enchantment of therapy? Based on participant observations in courses and workshops on Buddhist and Jewish psychology oriented to psychologists, we study what religion-inspired psychologists find to be missing from their profession, why they need religion or spirituality in order to change contemporary therapy, and how they adapt religious/spiritual ideas and practices so these could be used in their therapy work. This project is led by PhD candidate Orly Tal.