Joan D Koss-Chioino

Spiritual transformation, relation and radical empathy: core components of the ritual healing process.

Transcultural Psychiatry December 1, 2006 Joan D Koss-Chioino

Based on studies of spirit healing, this article proposes a model of the process of ritual healing that is focused on the core components of spiritual transformation, relatedness and empathy. It describes the central role of spiritual transformation in healers from which emerges their capacity for relation and empathy. Many spirit healers, following a spiritual transformation, begin to exercise...