Dr. Mike Rush
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Spiritual Crisis

My PhD Research

Spiritual Crisis: Empirical Assessments of Peer-Support & Grounding in Integration
Canterbury Christ Church University supported by the Professional Development Foundation & the Alef Trust.

My literature review sought to ascertain the empirical evidence-base for interventions in spiritual crisis.

I then performed a service evaluation of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network (SCN) before undertaking an IPA study of the meaning and lived-experience of grounding in spiritual crisis.

Finally, I wrote a case study that utilised the Hero's Journey as a framework for a narrative analysis of one person's path from spiritual crisis to applied practice in the form of peer-support.

My PhD was supervised by Prof. Les Lancaster, Dr David Lukoff, and Prof. David Lane.

To find out more you can listen to the podcast below where I was interviewed about my research by Fiona Robertson for her Dark Night of the Soul Unwrapped series.
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