Spiritual crises can be mistaken for psychiatric disorders, and this can lead to tragically unnecessary hospitalizations and stunting of the growth potential of such experiences. These resources are both a guide for clinicians working with spiritual crises and a self-help resource for persons integrating a spiritual emergency.

 

• Visionary Experience or Psychosis? with John Perry
  Dr. Perry opened a residential treatment center for first break psychotic patients. Here he discusses alternative treatments for psychosis.
   

• Spiritual Crisis with Christina Grof
  This interview with the co-author of the concept of spiritual emergency and co-founder of the Spiritual Emergency Network covers the nature of spiritual crises, including her own.
   

• The Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Mysticism: A Bibliographic Essay
   

• How Non-Diagnostic Listening Led to a Rapid "Recovery" from Paranoid Schizophrenia
  Dr. Al Siebert accepted the client's view that God had talked to her and the client's psychotic disorder healed.
   

• DSM-IV Religious & Spiritual Problem
  An online course that covers several varieties of spiritual crises