SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND HEALING

Spiritual healing is not a common practice in industrialized nations, but it once permeated all forms of medicine, psychotherapy and counsel ing. The word ''spiritual'' can be used to describe those aspects of h uman behavior and experience that reflect an alleged transcendent inte lligence or process, a transcedent entity that inspires devotion and d irects behavior. Different approaches to spiritual healing are describ ed.