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Susan Strasser,Sue Battersby, Jeanette Abendstern, Simon Abrams, Julia Nelki, Robin Logie and Helen Marks: Finding our own ways of being Jewish

"We are all children of parents whose lives have been profoundly affected by the holocaust and we were interested in understanding better how our parents' experiences had impacted upon us."

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Michael White: Exploring notions of spirituality and religion

Michael White discusses different accounts of spirituality including one "that is expressed in the knowing action that we take in contributing to the regrading of life. This is a consciousness or, if you like, a spirituality that is expressed in the maintenance of curiosity, in the face of indifference, about what it is that usually passes unnoticed; in attending to what it is that exists in people's lives that is otherwise subject to inattention; and in initiatives taken to rescue the extraordinary from the ordinary. "

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Dave Harper: Spirituality and therapy as places within which to question

"So therapy may be seen as spiritual in that it is often about creating a reflective space. Spirituality can give therapists a centre, balance, sustenance, a politics, an ethic and a sense of vision. "

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Andrea Johnson and Tim Atkin: Conversation not conversion!

The authors converse in a spirit of curiosity, interest and, at times. adversity about their experiences of spirituality and religion.

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Kedar Nath Dwivedi: Some reflections on the experience of Buddhism

"The eastern approaches have further developed the utilisation aspect of emotional maturation to deal with overwhelming feelings and as a means of achieving enlightenment. Faced with an intense feeling, we usually feel as if it is everlasting and forget that all emotions are transient and that if we do not fight, indulge or actively avoid them, they will run their course."

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Judith Spellman: Liberty for captives

"My experience of therapy is one that I remember with gratitude despite the fact that the self knowledge which it brought me was painful. I came to an awareness of my need for help through a journey of prayer, the practice of which also brings one to points of self-awareness. These two complementary gifts, prayer and therapy, worked together for me in a symbiotic relationship which I shall try to explain."

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William D Lax: Narrative therapy and buddhism - paths to liberation

"This article is an examination of some ideas and practices in narrative therapy and Buddhism. My intention is to try to expand on our understanding and applications of narrative work by adding views from a 2.500 year old spiritual tradition."

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John Hills: Quaking for Godot

"Spirituality is a difficult subject, rarely mentioned as a constituent belief in systemic therapy, unlike some approaches, such as the existential, Jungian or psychosynthesis, where it is seen as integral. This is surprising as systemic thinking is primarily holistic and implies patterns of coherence, equilibrium and connection which are the implicit aims of spiritual awareness."

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Mark Rivett and Eddy Street: The snowy heron in the white moon hides

"How do Buddhism and therapy relate? What do Buddhist thinking and practices bring to the theory and practice of therapy? We have pondered these questions in many ways and we would like to offer here some of the distillation of our ideas - a kind of 'Cooks tour' of the area."

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Abigail James: Reflections on conducting empirical research

A report of an investigation addressing the role of spiritual beliefs in health anxiety.

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Bebe Speed: Mara Selvini Palozzoli

A tribute

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