David Lukoff

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David Lukoff is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA and a licensed psychologist in California. He has been an active researcher and proponent of spiritual competency in the field of psychology and authored 80 articles and chapters on spiritual issues and mental health, co-authored the DSM-IV category Religious or Spiritual Problem, and has been an active workshop presenter internationally on spiritual competency, loss and grief, death and illness, spiritual problems and emergencies. He has been actively involved with the mental health consumer movement for 30 years.

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Book Review: Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2008

Integrating spirituality into recovery from mental disorders

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2008

How do Audiologists Address the Psychological and Spiritual Needs of Their Tinnitus Patients?

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2014

Survey on Mental Health, Recovery, and Spirituality

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2010

Sexual Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medication: Evaluation and Interventions

Psychiatric Services, Nov 1, 1990

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Transpersonal healing with hallucinogens

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2006

Spirituality and psychosis

The Mental Health Internet

Health care on the Internet, Aug 30, 1999

... General Webliographies are usually not as good as those classified under Men-Page 5. David Lu... more

Sex Education and Rehabilitation With Schizophrenic Male Outpatients

Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1986

Research indicates that schizophrenic patients lack intimate relationships and show a high rate o... more Research indicates that schizophrenic patients lack intimate relationships and show a high rate of sexual dysfunction. Despite increasing awareness of the rights of handicapped persons to sexual expression, the treatment of schizophrenic patients rarely addresses their sexuality. A sex education program for recent-onset male schizophrenic patients attending an outpatient clinic was developed in response to several incidents involving patients' inappropriate sexual behaviors. To enhance our understanding of the current sexual functioning and needs of these patients, sex histories were taken. Almost all of the 16 patients interviewed were sexually active, with autoerotic activity predominating. Sixty-three percent of the patients reported orgasmic and/or erectile dysfunctions. Other studies have linked sexual dysfunction to the side effects of antipsychotic medications. The objectives of the sex education program were: (1) to provide information; (2) to clarify values; (3) to overcome sexual dysfunction; and (4) to enhance intimacy skills. The authors used role playing, modeling, group exerdses, and explicit sex therapy audiovisual material to improve patients' intimacy skills. Patients participated actively and used the group to explore sexual issues. No exacerbations of symptoms were observed among patients participating in the program. Sexual functioning is a legitimate and important concern in a comprehensive rehabilitation program for schizophrenic patients. While many rehabilitation programs for physically disabled (Madorsky and Dixon 1983) and ill (Golden 1986) people now include sexual rehabilitation as part of comprehensive care, the sexual functioning of mentally ill people continues to be ignored. (Wasow 1980; Friedman and Harrison 1984). The Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (1986), which operates a clearinghouse for sex education materials, recently noted: Unfortunately. .. there are no sex education resources, such as curricula or booklets, at this time for either the mentally ill themselves or educators working with them. [p. 4] No studies of the outcome of sex education with schizophrenic patients have been published, and there are only a handful of anecdotal accounts of sex education programs with the mentally ill reported in the literature. Several factors contribute to this situation. Psychiatric staff members report discomfort when having to deal personally with patients about sexual concerns (Wolfe and Menninger 1973; Withersty 1976). This personal discomfort is compounded by the fear that psychiatric patients are not capable of responsibly handling their sexuality and that recognition of their sexuality might trigger inappropriate behavior (Sadow and Corman 1983).

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David Lukoff, PhD. The importance of spirituality in mental health. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan

PubMed, Nov 1, 2000

Religious and spiritual case reports on MEDLINE: a systematic analysis of records from 1980 to 1996

PubMed, 1999

Objective: To undertake a systematic analysis of case reports involving religious or spiritual is... more Objective: To undertake a systematic analysis of case reports involving religious or spiritual issues published between 1980 and 1996. Data sources: MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Study selection: A search of 4,306,906 records indexed on MEDLINE from 1980 to 1996. Data extraction: A total of 364 abstracts were found, then subjected to coding analysis. Data synthesis: Categories were developed for (1) types of healthcare situations involving religious/spiritual issues, (2) religious and spiritual interventions, (3) collaboration between healthcare and religious professionals, (4) psychopathology and sensitivity themes, and (5) religious faith/spiritual path. Although all of these case reports involved religious and spiritual issues, only 45 (12%) explicitly mentioned a religious professional. Of these, only 8 (2%) indicated any collaboration between healthcare and religious professionals. Conclusions: A paucity of published case report literature exists on religious and spiritual issues (.008% of the MEDLINE records), indicating that the increasing acceptance of these factors by patients and healthcare professionals is not yet reflected in scientific and clinical journals. A need exists for more documented examples of collaboration between healthcare and religious professionals.

Mental Health, Religion, and Spirituality

Religion, spirituality and health: a social scientific approach, 2018

This chapter reviews theories and empirical evidence on relations between religion and spirituali... more

The Myths in Mental Illness

To my amazement. .. the imagery of schizophrenic fantasy perfectly matches that of the mythologic... more To my amazement. .. the imagery of schizophrenic fantasy perfectly matches that of the mythological Hero's Journey. Joseph Campbell In the spring of 1982,I co-led a workshop entitled "Psychosis: Mysticism, Shamanism, or Pathology?" with medical anthropologist Joan Halifax, Ph.D. The workshop was held at the Ojai Foundation, a Los Angeles area retreat center, and explored the relationship between creativity and pathology in psychotic states of mind. Publicity about this event drew responses from several people who were interested in the topic but unable to attend. Among them was Howard C. Everest, a former psychiatric patient. In the fall of 1982,I taught a seminar for psychiatric residents, psychology interns and staff at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute where I am currently on the facuIty. I invited several ex-patients, including Howard, to visit the seminar and discuss their psychotic episodes, their treatment by the mental health system, and the difficulties they had encountered in readjusting to consensual reality and societal norms. Howard responded eagerly to my invitation to present, since he never before had an "Howard C. Everest" is a pseudonym created by the author of the case history portion of this paper for purposes of retaining the client's anonymity. Any relationship between this "Howard C. Everest" and anyother individual with a similar name is purely coincidental. The author wishes to thank Gale Thompson, M.A., and Christel Feuerhake, Ph.D .• for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article. Preparation of this article was supported in part by MHCRC Grant 30911.

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Spirituality in the Recovery from Persistent Mental Disorders

Southern Medical Journal, Jun 1, 2007

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Spiritual Emergencies and Ecological Distress

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2009

Aikido As Mindfulness Practice in Clinical Training

Comparison of a Holistic and a Social Skills Training Program for Schizophrenics

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Spiritual and Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotic Disorders

Routledge eBooks, May 12, 2014

... Differences Between Psychotic Disorders and Spiritual Experiences In his classic study on mys... more

Commentary on "Spiritual Experience and Psychopathology&quot

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 1997

Aikido and Psychotherapy: A Study of Psychotherapists Who Are Aikido Practitioners

Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Jul 1, 2006

Eight psychotherapists who were also highly skilled in Aikido, a non violent Japanese martial art... more Eight psychotherapists who were also highly skilled in Aikido, a non violent Japanese martial art based on the principles of harmony and the peaceful resolution of conflict, participated in this semi-structured interview study investigating how their practice of Aikido informed their psychotherapy practice. Eight themes emerged: Aikido resulted in a mind-body unification which was described as being physically and psychologically healing; being centered in Aikido was essentially the same as being present in therapy; the Aikido strategies of ''getting off the line,'' blending, and extending were translated and utilized in psychotherapy; takemusu, the ability to spontaneously manifest technique or form in Aikido was observed to transfer into therapy practice; Aikido was described as a synthesis of a martial art and spiritual practice, both of which inform their psychotherapy practice; Aikido was viewed to be metaphorically and isomorphically related to psychotherapy. Implications for utilizing Aikido practice in training psychotherapists are discussed. The moon does not think to be reflected nor does the water think to reflect in the Hirowasa Pond-Tesshu This study of psychotherapists who were also highly skilled Aikidoists investigated how their practice of Aikido, a nonviolent Japanese martial art, informed their psychotherapy practice. Aikido has been practiced by Westerners since shortly after the Second World War. During that time a number of transpersonal psychologists and pioneers including Robert Frager, who founded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and Charles Tart, a leading transpersonal theorist, have been deeply involved in Aikido practice. They have practiced an art, rooted in Asian martial and religious traditions, which overtly states that its aim is to train practitioners to peacefully resolve conflict, or even ''to manifest love and harmony in all actions'' (Tart, 1987, p.334). The competent psychotherapist needs to deal effectively, powerfully, and caringly with his or her clients, often in potentially volatile and highly charged emotional situations. Because Aikido deals specifically with conflict and its peaceful resolution, the study of Aikido, complete with its philosophy and practice methods, was seen by the authors as potentially being helpful in keeping therapists grounded,

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Book Review: Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2008