Psychiatry and Spiritual Awakening: Psychopathology Through the Lens of Transpersonal Development and Energy Transformation

Psychiatry and Spiritual Awakening reimagines the landscape of mental healthcare by integrating traditional psychiatric approaches with transpersonal psychology and spiritual insight. Written from the perspective of a seasoned psychiatrist and transpersonal therapist, the book offers an innovative synthesis that bridges biological, psychological, and spiritual understandings of mental suffering.It highlights the limitations of the biomedical paradigm and the chronic, stigmatizing identity it often imposes on patients, instead reframing psychiatric suffering as a potential catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.Through a historical and conceptual overview, the author traces the evolution of psychiatry and psychology, examining how modern practice has become dominated by symptom-focused, pharmacological interventions.The book then introduces the principles of transpersonal psychology, drawing on the work of figures such as Jung, Assagioli, Wilber, and Grof, and integrating Eastern co