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Hearing Spiritual Voices - Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry
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Hearing Spiritual Voices - Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry
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This open access book explores the nature of voices identifiable as
spiritual. Unusual perceptual, or perception-like, experiences,
often meaningful to those who have them, may be sympathetically or
unsympathetically interpreted by others. One interpretation,
especially when voices are associated with unusual behaviour, is
that they are evidence of mental disorder. Ostensibly such
interpretations are sympathetic (showing concern for someone who is
ill) but in practice they are used to deny the meaning and value of
the experiences for those concerned, thus depriving them (and
others) of creative and innovative ways of understanding the human
condition. The question is thus one of the meaning. Are such
experiences meaningful only as indicators of a diagnosis, or are
they meaningful in other ways, shedding light on human
self-understanding and perhaps even a wider spiritual reality?
Psychiatry has tended to see such phenomena as diagnostically
meaningful but not as sources of deeper insight into the human
condition. This book takes three 14th century examples of women who
heard spiritually significant voices: Margery Kempe, Julian of
Norwich, and Joan of Arc. Each of these women, in different ways,
has left an enduring legacy in literature and history. Modern
psychiatric commentary on the voices that they reported has
generally focussed on diagnosis rather than on wider questions of
meaning. These commentaries will be used as a lens through which to
consider how contemporary psychiatric practice might be enriched by
the humanities and enabled to find a more spiritually empathetic,
if not also sympathetic, enriching and meaning enhancing
perspective on unusual mental phenomena. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome
Trust.
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Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Christopher C. H. Cook
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
152 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-70798-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-567-70798-9 |
Barcode: |
9780567707987 |
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