Healing Tales: The Narrative Arts in Spiritual Traditions

by Stanley Krippner (Editor), Michael Bova (Editor), Leslie Gray (Editor)

This volume, edited by Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, Leslie Gray and Adam Kay, brings together spiritual narratives from a wide variety of psychotherapeutic, religious and cultural traditions to illustrate the healing power of personal narrative, cultural narrative, art and theater, spirituality and prayer. Authors span a variety of traditions and cultural experiences among them Asian, European, Native American, New Age, to contemporary American, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

About the author

Dr. Stanley C. Krippner Ph.D. is an executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland, California. He was previously director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, and director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. He has written extensively on altered states of consciousness, dream telepathy, and parapsychological subjects.