“Applications for the course in Jungian psychology [University of Gävle] have increased by 650 percent in the last five years. The training places, which were previously 15, are now 130. According to Åke Tilander, many of those accepted are studying in the psychology, sociology and medical programs. With the course, they want to get a complement and a comprehensive understanding of the human being."
"A community where psychologists are spiritually oriented can talk about what is moving in them. Both in relation to practice as a psychologist and as a human being, you are both a psychologist and a spiritual person.
Discusses and talks about how the evidence-based assumptions, on which the psychology profession rests, can be reconciled with the spiritual."
The Association of Psychologists in Denmark has received a subsection for "spiritually oriented psychologists". In Sweden it would probably be unthinkable. (Don't think there's even a seed for a proposal.)
Some thoughts, based on the title and abstract. That thing with state and trait? Boosted narcissism as something you are, basically. Or more like something that a certain system of thought might tempt. For conspiracy theories, even the most far-reaching ones, Trump as a Savior, chemtrails, etc., there are lots of people who are attracted by such world explanations. Sure, there is something "narcissistic" about it. Us and them. The darkness, the threat, the stupidity are on the outside, etc. But is it narcissism. For real?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22001051?via%3Dihub
Can't decide which explains it best. Psychiatry or ordinary human frailty supported by a suitable alternative worldview?
https://globalnews.ca/news/8106455/qanon-surfer-murder-children-serpent-dna-monsters/amp/
Aftonbladet also reports:
I don't really know how I think about the division between psychiatry and ordinary human frailty, not crystal clear... "Psychiatry" would be psychosis or severe personality disorder, for example? Deep depression.
I remember a lecture once where we were taught that research on suicide bombers, contrary to what you might think, showed that they are not mentally ill (like what I mention above). The many hundreds who stormed Congress? Those who threaten or are prepared to set fire to abortion clinics, or fur farms? Abuse or exploitation within a religious movement? Etc, etc.
Sometimes human frailty is enough, i.e. things that are normally kept in check by culture, social norms, what is legal. Together with a strong conviction, about one or the other, which can then give a kind of "free pass" to break & live out this forbidden.
But in principle, it is an important boundary to think about. Envy, jealousy, lust, revenge, etc. belong to the human domain. Normally kept in check. Sometimes it breaks through. (Thinking of the concept of "Crime Passionnel" for example, i.e. killing if you find your partner with another, which in many countries is seen as a mitigating circumstance...)
That is what the courts have to decide in certain crimes. Was the act carried out under the influence of a severe mental disorder (psychosis), which usually requires treatment, or was it something else, for example that one did not have enough self-control to keep the human frailty in check, for which one should be punished, "correction in the ranks"
Nah, hard to understand in any other way than it would be "a serious mental disorder"... But you sometimes hear about tragedies where a father/husband (is that almost always the case), who is denied custody of his children, does something similar , directed as revenge against the woman, with the motive "that if I'm not going to get, then you're not going to get either"... Which, based on a night-black selfish logic, comes to the conclusion that this is the fairest solution... You don't know if anything like it existed featured in the background here, which further added on.
Started reading this book this morning. An author who knows what he is writing about and seems to have his heart in the right place, as they say.
So dense that the opening chapters on the state of psychiatry, and society, feel like a descent into a very dark place. It's not all that bad in my reality, although nothing is untrue.
Johan Stiernstedt is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, with extensive experience in both roles. The book came out in 2020, can be bought for example at alibris
Spiritual and personal development. How to protect searching people from harm? Falling into the clutches of predatory, manipulative types in the alternative industry? What can society do to regulate and comply? Some think that a little more control or a "harder grip" on the off-roads would help. But it is not easy to see how something like that would be possible to fix. Couldn't you instead legislate that only people who have ID from the National Board of Health and Welfare were allowed to deal with such things? That is, doctors, psychologists, nurses, etc. Only these were allowed to provide tools & guidance for people's spiritual upbringing and well-being. (Much like alcohol today can only be sold on the System.)
The CBTs have long been involved in Buddhist mindfulness, etc. Those who work in Freud & Co's succession could offer a solid schooling path towards spiritual integration and satisfaction. You would of course lose some of the skills that today exist in the alternative world, but in return could the area be reserved for people who, in the face of the threat of a suspended license and professional ban, at least kept to their skins?
(Not going to pretend I've read the book above, because I haven't, but it sounds interesting 
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Eager tank by psychiatry professor Jan-Otto Ottosson, in Läkartidningen 2004, after what had been discovered in Knutby.
Cecilia Wemmert at Umeå University has interviewed a number of people about their experiences with care, after they dropped out of various spiritual movements. This has formed the basis of the essay "Because you become a newcomer in this world when you leave the cult" (2016)
The National Board of Health and Welfare has sent out new ones socialstyrelsen_2017_remiss_depressionangest (December 2016) on referral. This has been debated extensively in early 2017 and hopefully will continue to do so. A finished document is due in the autumn. The document is about which forms of treatment are considered to have "evidence", and for what. Psychodynamic therapy (PDT) is pitted against cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), above all, it's the old fashioned. Other forms of treatment recommended for certain conditions are EMDR and IPT. And then something called "rTMS", i.e. "Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation". This is how rTMS is described in the document:
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An alternative to drug treatment or ECT is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The treatment method is relatively new and in recent years there has been research showing that rTMS has a good effect in moderate to severe major depression and for people who have not had an effect from antidepressant drug treatment. The method seems to have mainly mild side effects and, unlike with ECT, the patient can be awake during the treatment. rTMS could be relevant for significantly more patients than the approximately 50 who are treated annually in Sweden today. It would require that more clinics invest in the technology or that more be referred to the clinics that currently carry out rTMS. This will affect the resource allocation of health and medical care, p8
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a method that was developed in the mid-1980s, but has only been used in Sweden in a few clinics. In recent years, however, scientific support has been strengthened and the treatment has begun to be used more, albeit only in some counties.
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) involves an electromagnetic coil generating a magnetic field over the scalp, which creates a current in the brain cells located near the coil. This leads to the brain cells being activated or inhibited in the left and right frontal lobes respectively. During the treatments, the person is awake. The treatment takes about an hour to complete and is usually given daily for four weeks, on a total of 20 occasions. rTMS has mostly mild side effects, such as local scalp pain during the treatment and temporary headaches. Dizziness and fainting occur, but are much more unusual. The most serious side effect is epileptic seizure which is very rare.
Wikipedia has a comprehensive one article about this relatively new form of treatment.
For those interested in religious studies, does it perhaps sound familiar?
Wikipedia also has a nice one article on Stanley Koren's “The God Helmet”:
The God Helmet is an experimental apparatus originally called the Koren helmet after its inventor Stanley Koren. It was developed by Koren and neuroscientist Michael Persinger to study creativity, religious experience and the effects of subtle stimulation of the temporal lobes. Reports by participants of a "sensed presence" while wearing the God helmet brought public attention and resulted in several TV documentaries. The device has been used in Persinger's research in the field of neurotheology, the study of the neural correlations of religion and spirituality. The apparatus, placed on the head of an experimental subject, generates very weak magnetic fields, which Persinger refers to as "complex." Like other neural stimulation with low-intensity magnetic fields, these fields are approximately as strong as those generated by a land line telephone handset or an ordinary hair dryer, but far weaker than that of an ordinary refrigerator magnet and approximately a million times weaker than transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Here is another detailed one website if researcher Stanley Koren and his research for it want to delve deeper.
In the fifties, psychiatry was largely dominated by psychoanalytic/psychodynamic and behaviorist thinking. Many perceived that these were too deterministic and interested in "the sick". Maslow and Rogers... Although Maslow in particular moved in the borderlands, the step was taken to a more spiritual psychologist with Stanislav Grof, and others.
Another track was Assagioli and Jung, who both broke with Sigmund Freud and based their own psychologies and treatment methods on these. Jung "Analytical psychology" and Assagioli "Psychosynthesis". This was already at the beginning of the 1900th century, and really it doesn't have that much relevance, if it weren't for the fact that certain parts of the new spirituality are well aware of these pioneers and often compare mainstream psychiatry with them.
Assagioli's influence can be felt, for example, in the alternative therapy models, and educations, which are provided by, among others HumaNova and Psychosynthesis Academy.
Treatments, as well as an education in Transpersonal psychotherapy at Step1 level, has for many years been given by The Delphi Institute in Stockholm. The Delphi institute writes on its website that it offers psychotherapy on a "transpersonal/spiritual basis". Huma Nova writes on its website that their 1-year basic education is "an education for intellect, soul and heart". On the website you can also read (January 2017, link):
HumaNova has once again become one of the few suppliers that has received a framework agreement with Stockholm County Council 2015-2018 within Manager and employee development. HumaNova has previously had an agreement with SLL and when they renewed their agreement and went out for a new procurement, we were once again given continued confidence to carry out assignments in Manager and leader training, Management group development, Team/group development, and Personal manager and employee development.
So even if the "soul", especially on good grounds, will hardly find a place in care programs and treatment options, individual employees and managers within Stockholm County Council may well be sent on a course or rehabilitation where such things are discussed.