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When Therapy Isn't Enough:The Healing Power Of Prayer And Psychotherapy

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Everyone who has experienced a significant personal loss in their lives, or who feels the need for greater emotional well-being for any reason should read this book. Buy it for your counselor, therapist, or physician. We can all benefit from Dr. Menahem's insights into the nature of psychological trauma and sin, or separation from spirit in our lives. He suggests how bringing prayer and other spiritual practice into psychotherapy can deepen and strengthen healing. One of the many advantages which he notes is the ability of the spiritual psychotherapist to discern psychosis from spiritual emergence and to treat the patient accordingly. In our time of confused and blurred values this book gives direction to both client and therapist while honoring each person's unique spiritual path.

When therapy Isn't enough is a magnificent conmtribution to the evolving use of prayer in medicine. I know of nothing else quite like it. Dr. Larry Dossey,, author of Healing Words Inviting us to take a journey into ourselves and beyond, psychologist Sam Menahem explores how prayer and spirituality in all their diverse forms, can complement traditional psychotherapy. Menahem draws on psychodynamic therory, Judeo christian teachings and case studies to explore the realms of spirit and psyche-creating a compelling argument for their therapeutic synthesis. Noetic Science Review ,Fall 1998

Dr. Menahem's book will be useful to therapists, rabbis, priests and ministers as well as to people who are interested in growth, self-help, spirituality and human potential. The book is easy to read and it offers useful ideas and information for all of us who are in search of inner peace and fulfillment. In this book, Dr. Menahem disseminates some wonderful ideas about therapy, prayer and self-help. Read this comforting and inspiring book and you may be able to fire your therapist.

As a therapist I was looking for practical suggestions to incorporate spirituality with my clients. It wasn't really that kind of book, although it did not claim to be. It was filled with things I've heard before, in school and in church. Might be a good read for someone not in the field.