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Anna Ostaszewska (Poland)
Comment to

“Psychotherapy and the Anna Ostaszews-
ka, psychothera-
Holy Spirit. pist, supervisor,

New perspectives in European Certi-
ficate of Psycho-
“providing care” in the no- therapy (ECP).
President of the
man’s land on the borders Association of
between the psychological Christian Psy-
chologists in Poland in years 1995-2009.
and spiritual.“ President of the ACP Psychotherapy Sec-
tion (2009-2014). Lecturer at the ACP Psy-
chotherapy Study (2003-2015). At present
she works at the Integrative Psychotherapy
Valter Cascioli’ in his very interesting article Centre in Warsaw.
“Psychotherapy and the Holy Spirit” shows in Author of the book „Psychoterapia integra-
a deep way the spiritual reality which should tywna w podejściu chrześcijańskim” (In-
be taken into account by psychotherapists and tegrative Psychotherapy: A Christian Ap-
psychiatrists. The author writes about Holy Spi- proach). Sopot: GWP, 2015.
rit and possible demons activity. This is invisible First published eJ 2, 2012
reality – but effects are visible. Cascioli points
that using our professional knowledge and skills anna.ostaszewska@pro.onet.pl
of recognising spiritual influences can increase
effectiveness of psychotherapy or psychiatric Former articles by Anna you can see here:
help. In my comment I would like to add some http://emcapp.ignis.de/1/#/58
information which support Valter Cascioli’ the- http://emcapp.ignis.de/1/#/78
sis presented in his article.

1. New situation
1
In XX century spirituality and religiosity were are based on Christian anthropology . In 2013
ignored by many psychotherapists and psychia- American Psychological Association started to
trists. This situation has been changing in last 20 publish the new journal „Spirituality in Clinical
years. Spirituality and religiosity became more Practice” (APA, 2013). In portal Psychology To-
and more important in the temporary thinking day information about psychotherapists in US
about helping people with psychological pro- and Canada include their religiosity. There are
blems. As the example lets notice that World many publications on Christian Psychotherapy
Psychiatric Association and World Health (ie. Johnson, 2010; Mc Minn, Campbell, 2007;
Organization published in 2017 the declarati- Pargament, 2007; Siang-Yang Tan, 2011). When
on on spirituality and religiosity in psychiatry writing about future of psychotherapy experts
(WPA, 2017). Similar declaration was made by say that spirituality will be more openly present
the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RPC, 2013). in psychological professional help (Prochaska,
American Psychological Association accre- Norcross, 2003).
dits seven clinical psychology programs which

1 We can find them in portal BestPsychologyDegrees.
com (www.bestpsychologydegrees.com/faq/how-do-i-
find-an-accredited-christian-clinical-psychology-de-
gree-program/).
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