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The Varieties of Religious Therapy: Twelve Step Spirituality

By Ryan Howes, PhD, ABPP on November 9, 2011 in In Therapy

Most twelve step groups acknowledge a "Higher Power" as a central component of recovery. The outspoken Rabbi Rami Shapiro shares one perspective on this form of spirituality. Read More

I arm-wrestled my shrink and we found the "between" there

Submitted by Kelly Cash on November 9, 2011 - 4:46pm.

RE: "The most rewarding part of engaging people in genuine dialogue is the aha moment when we both step out of our systems of thought and meet without defenses in the sacred, unlabeled, and unbounded space that Martin Buber called the "between." It is here that we stop playing god and realize God is playing us."

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Ryan Howes

Ryan Howes, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, writer, musician and professor at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena, California.

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