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About the Book

Theoretical and empirical work in the area of spiritual psychology improves our understanding of the physical and spiritual world, or the behaviour and experience of humans. It also improves our ability to help people enhance their spiritual well-being. This edition explains how the theoretical concepts make sense by showing how they relate to practice, training and research. The field of spiritual psychology touches some of the liveliest area of research, practice, treatment and training and the ways in which we tie ourselves up in knots by taking our thoughts and feelings too religiously. It attempts to treat clients through various modes of healing, developing spiritual personality, spiritual counselling and spiritual love and spiritual transformations. This edition provides intriguing psychological insights and generates new ideas for research in other fields of applied psychology such as personality, counselling, industrial and organizational psychology. In my view, this edition is an ambitious, scholarly and provocative. It will be helpful in going through complex psychological issues and to discover the pathway to the inner heaven. The focus of this edition is practical.

About the Author

Akbar Husain is Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has obtained Ph.D. Degree in Psychology from the same University in 1981. He has over two decades of teaching and research experience. He has successfully supervised 10 M.Phil dissertations and 18 Ph.D. theses. He is author/co-author of ten books and 125 research articles/papers. Prof. Husain has attended several National and International Conferences and Seminars. He has travelled widely for academic activities. He has standardized numerous psychological tests and completed three research projects. He is Life Member and Annual Member of various National and International Associations. He served as Council Member, Regional Convenor, Regional President and Associate Secretary in the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. At present he is an editor of the JIAAP. His current areas of research are: Stress and Health, Applied Gerontology, Spiritual Psychology and Positive Psychology.