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Website: Psychiatry with Soul
Maureen B. Roberts, PhD, has over 25 years experience in ‘mental health’ research, therapeutic practice, teaching, publishing, training & course facilitation. After working as a graphic artist, photographer, musician and pastoral care worker, in 1983-4 Maureen worked through an acute transformational crisis, and to help make sense of this self-rebirthing experience went through Jungian analysis in Australia. She later completed an original Doctoral thesis, a Jungian analysis of the life and works of the 19th century English poet John Keats.
She regards the 'mental health crisis' from a soul-centred perspective, in her words "I see a lot of so-called 'mental illness' as a reflection of cultural 'soul loss' and decry the spiritual poverty of a psychiatric model which views the rare gifts, insights and abilities which many sufferers - particularly of schizophrenia - have as 'mental illness'."
