ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a general overview of the process of psychotherapy incorporating a spiritual dimension. Four stages of this process are outlined, with the spiritual dimension. These stages are: containment and comprehension; analysis of character; alignment with the deep psyche; integration and emergence of a different centre to the personality. The chapter examines more thoroughly what integration, as a practical process, actually means. It focuses on specific archetypal components, such as anima and animus, although the central principle of contact with an archetypal layer of the deep psyche is maintained since this is where healing intelligence originates. In addition to efforts of understanding the presenting crisis, psychotherapy attempts to comprehend the presenting symptom in the context of the character of the client. Psychotherapy with a spiritual dimension involves all four stages of psychotherapy, the early ones being preparatory and foundational for later progress.
