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Paths to Spirituality

David N. Elkins. Beyond Religion: A Personal Program for Building a Spiritual Life Outside the Walls of Traditional Religion. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1998, xi + 304 pp, $16.95, ISBN 0–8356–0764‐X     

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A training need to help core trainees prepare for the psychotherapy long case was identified. We prepared and showed a training DVD to all core psychiatric trainees at South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS trust. A questionnaire was designed to receive feedback from trainees. A total of 26 trainees participated. All trainees found the DVD informative. Most trainees found the DVD helpful in reducing their anxieties prior to taking on a long case. All trainees found the DVD accurately reflected their experience of psychotherapy and supervision. Using simulated and technology-aided learning material is a useful and economical way of introducing psychotherapy skills to core psychiatry trainees before the clinical supervised experience of a long case.     

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The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch. James Jacob Hurtak Los Gatos, California: The Academy for Future Science, 1973, 1977, 1982 (2nd ed.), 1987 (3rd ed.). 612 pp, US$40.     

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The Post Evangelical Dave Tomlinson London, SPCK/Triangle, 1995 152 pp., £5.99 ISBN: 0 281 04814 s     

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The Satanism Scare. James T. Richardson, Joel Best, and David G. Bromley, eds. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991. 320 pp, £1750 (p/b).     

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Vie et Mort des Chrétiens d'Orient. Jean‐Pierre Valognes, 1994. Paris, Fayard. 972 pp., FF250, ISBN 2–213–03064–2     

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A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1993. Cambridge, The Islamic Texts Society. 270 pp., ISBN 0–946621–51–9

Seyyed Hossein Nasr's new book is intended both for the young Muslim born in the West and for overseas Muslim students who are studying here. It demands the serious attention not only of these groups but of all who inhabit our ‘global village’. In order to gather a range of views four postgraduate students from CSIC were invited to review the book from their particular perspectives. Two of the students were Muslim and two Christian. In both cases, one student was born in the West and the other was an overseas student. What follows are their analyses of the book.     

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Arthur Koestler. The Ghost in the Machine. New York, Macmillan, 1968, 384 pp. $6.95.     

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Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Liu Xiaogan, trans, by William E. Savage, 1994, Ann Arbor, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, xxii + 217 pp., ISBN 0 89264 106 1