Spiritual Bypassing: Counseling and Support Perspectives

Religious belief as a strategy for coping with painful life events can be both helpful and harmful; positive religious coping has generally been found to support healthful outcomes, while the negative form has been linked to increased distress.

What is Spiritual Bypassing?

Religious belief as a strategy for coping with painful life events can be both helpful and harmful; positive religious coping has generally been found to support healthful outcomes, while the negative form has been linked to increased distress. Spiritual bypassing is described as a form of negative religious coping in which religion or spirituality is used as a psychological defense mechanism to avoid facing painful situations. The term was coined in the mid-1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist who described it as a coping device through which people use spirituality as a defense mechanism.

Who Should Attend:

. Counselors, psychologists and social workers
. End-of-life professionals
. Chaplains, clergy and religious scholars
. Spiritual seekers and mystics
. Bereaved individuals and caregivers

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