Rollo May
This long established classic has now been updated by the author to provide an excellent groundwork text for counselling. The author's direct approach, combined with useful examples, helps the reader in adjusting his or her own personality to deal with people constructively and positively. "An indispensable and inspirational primer for anyone seriously engaged in counselling." Leo Goldberger
192pp ... Paperback
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Fred Friedberg
Eye movement techniques are a set of revolutionary new methods that psychologists have been using to rapidly reduce their clients' emotional conflicts and redirect their thoughts into more positive directions. This is the first self-help book to teach readers how to use the techniques on their own to cope with a vast range of problems, including anxiety and phobias, depression, anger and guilt, as well as the stress of life transitions, relationship conflicts, and chronic pain. The book also serves as an excellent introduction for therapists wishing to use these techniques as an adjunct to existing methods of treatment.
160pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Joe Dispenza
Take your first step toward true evolution. Ever wonder why you repeat the same negative thoughts in your head? Why you keep coming back for more from hurtful family members, friends, or significant others? Why you keep falling into the same detrimental habits or limiting attitudes even when you know that they are going to make you feel bad? Dr. Joe Dispenza has spent decades studying the human mind, how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioural patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolvesby learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos, and even healing the body and the psyche. Evolve Your Brain presents this information in depth, while helping you take control of your mind, explaining how thoughts can create chemical reactions that keep you addicted to patterns and feelings, including ones that make you unhappy. And when you know how these bad habits are created, it's possible to not only break these patterns, but also to reprogram and evolve your brain, so that new, positive, and beneficial habits can take over. This is something you can start to do right now. You and only you have the power to change your mind and evolve your brain for a better life for good.
It took one moment to change Joe Dispenza's life forever. A car sent him toppling off his bike, causing multiple fractures to his vertabrae. Several doctors said his only hope of walking again was to fuse some of the vertebrae in an operation that would leave him with a lifetime of pain and limited mobility. But as a chiropractor, Dispenza knew enough about spinal health and his own post-accident physical state to take a remarkable risk: he refused the operation and, along with a careful therapeutic program, literally thought his way to healing. Nine months later, he was able to walk and function as well as he had before the accident, and he credits a large amount of that recovery to the power of his own mind. This incredible experience spurred Joe on to learn about this most important tool that we all possess, the brain.
288pp, 9x6 ... ISBN 9780757304804 ... Hardback
Karol Truman
This best-selling guide to emotional and physical healing is highly recommended. A do-it-yourself guide to dealing with your emotional problems. Discover how to transform negative feelings into constructive attitudes that clear the way for you to live a happier, healthier life. Karol Truman not only tells you why you feel the way you feel, but how these feelings all started. She then goes on to tell you how you can easily transform undesirable feelings so that they no longer hinder your emotional and psychological growth. "What you may not realize is that when negative feelings are not resolved as they occur, these feelings remain very much alive in your physical energy field (body) and these feelings affect each day of your life." -Karol Truman.
298pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Steven Hayes & Spencer Smith
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new approach to psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. Starting with the assumption that the normal condition of human existence is suffering and struggle, ACT works by first encouraging individuals to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. This acceptance is an antidote to the problem of avoidance, which ACT views as among the greatest risk factors for unnecessary suffering and poor mental health. The process of ACT includes help for individuals to identify a set of core values, a personal set of objectives that matter to them personally. The therapy then encourages the individual to commit to behavior that furthers these values despite potentially painful emotional obstacles. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life offers a five-step plan for coping with painful emotions such as anxiety and depression. It teaches you how to learn life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to further the goals you value most. You’ll learn to engage with and overcome painful thoughts and feelings with step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques. You’ll find out how to let go of control, and develop compassion and flexibility. The realization that painful feelings cannot be controlled will open you to the possibility of fully emotional living. Once present, engaged, and aware, you can begin to build new lives for yourself filled with significance and meaning. This book is not about overcoming pain or fighting emotions; it’s about embracing life and feeling everything it has to offer. In this way, it offers a way out of suffering by choosing to live a life based on what matters most.
206pp, 11x8.5 ... Paperback
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David Feinstein, Donna Eden & Gary Craig
This groundbreaking book explains how to tap into your body's energy not only to change your health, but to change your behaviours and thought patterns as well. Your body is comprised of energy pathways and energy centres that are in constant motion, interconnecting with your cells, organs, immune system, mood and thoughts. The Healing Power of Energy Psychology shows you how to shift these energies, so you can influence your physical health, your emotional patterns, and your state of mind. With this strategy, stubborn phobias often fade in minutes, the lifelong effects of an early trauma can frequently be reduced or completely eliminated, uncontrollable anger can rapidly become manageable and even elusive physical problems may respond where other treatments have failed. Here are simple step-by-step instructions to help you: change unwanted habits and behaviours; enhance your ability to love, succeed, and enjoy life; overcome fear, guilt, shame, jealousy. The energy approach presented in this book can help bring about significant change in your life.
304pp, 9.25x6 ... ISBN 0749926791 ...Paperback
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Charles Whitfield
Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child withinthat part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilledlaunched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of adult life. Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology.
152pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown Ph.D. began his work in body psychotherapy in London in 1964, organising and leading training programs as a colleague of Alexander Lowen. Influenced by W. Reich, C. G. Jung, A. Maslow, E. Neumann, K. Goldstein, C. Rogers and D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown developed his own methods of dissolving chronic muscular tensions and reactivating the natural mental-spiritual polarities of the embodied soul and transcendental psyche. Brown’s theories of body psychotherapy postulate the fundamental importance of the ontological Being Centres of Agape-Eros, Hara, Logos and the Spiritual Warrior as being the final goals of the de-armouring process. As such, he contests Reich’s theories about the formation of character-muscular armouring. His primary purpose in writing The Healing Touch is to help students and practising psychotherapists gain a greater theoretical clarity and pragmatic appreciation of the use of yin/yang bodywork methods with an essentially humanistic clinical framework. Because he includes spiritual and subtle imaginative psychic dimensions of the embodied soul in his work, his unique approach sets a new guideline in the field of therapy.
326pp, 8.5 x 5.5 ... Paperback
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Tim Laurence
For more than 35 years, the Hoffman Process has been recognized as one of the most potent transformational processes; however, the 8-day residential program is out of reach for most people. Now, Tim Laurence reveals this powerful methodology with warmth and clarity. Using practical exercises, personal stories, case histories, and insightful commentary, Laurence skillfully teaches how to identify and resolve the inherited patterns of behavior that cause emotional and spiritual pain. In this book readers will learn powerful ways to: Break the compulsive patterns that run your life, exercise your own free will, and regain control of your thoughts and behavior; Free up energy by releasing your pent-up resentments and directly experience your own spirituality; Identify what you really want in life, and finally make the changes you have been putting off for years. The Hoffman Process is endorsed by an extraordinary array of experts and leaders from all walks of life, and it includes the results of a grant research study proving the long-term effectiveness of the Process. "The program in this book is the finest and most complete expression of what healing and spirituality are all about. If it was the only book available on psychospiritual transformation, it would be enough." - Joan Borysenko.
288pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Karen Kissel Wegela
Despite our good intentions to help others, we often hold back because we don’t know what to do or are afraid to intrude. Even when we overcome our hesitations, we sometimes find that we have made things worse with out attempts to help. Karen Kissel Wegela combines the insights of traditional meditative practices and modern psychology to address these problems, concluding that the most important thing we can offer to anyone in distress is our mindful presence, without agenda or expectations. This book provides concrete practical advice, with techniques and exercises for developing the capacity to serve, support, and encourage those in need—for people in the helping professions as well as for everybody else who wants to provide genuine help to others. “Karen Wegela’s book is first-rate healing technology. It reaches the art of doing good well – of making work with others a profound means of working on ourselves.”—Stephen Levine.
256pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Ken Wilber
Are you ready to ramp up the performance of your human hardware? If so, then welcome to the launch of Version 1.0 of Ken Wilber's The Integral Operating System. No, it’s not computer software. It’s a course that crystallizes Ken’s lifelong investigation into the truths of Eastern and Western thought into a cutting-edge tool for sparking a revolution of your mind and spirit. Ken Wilber has spent over three decades creating an all-embracing vision that incorporates the best elements from all of humanity’s spiritual and scientific traditions into a model that reveals even deeper levels of truth - the Integral Map. Now, this profoundly versatile tool has been formatted into a multimodal “platform for the soul” - one that you can self-install to accelerate the growth of your spiritual evolution, intellect, relationships with others, and even your physical health. As one of the most influential figures of human spiritual development, Ken Wilber has been called “the Einstein of consciousness.” Here is an unprecedented chance for you to “download” this remarkable thinker’s teachings as he illuminates the intricacies of The Integral Operating System.
2CDs, 1DVD, 70-page workbook ... ISBN 1591793475 ... Boxed Set
Roger Lewin
He's a hero to some, credited with curing their diabetes, Parkinson's, and insomnia. Others have called him a fraud. Irving Dardik, a former surgeon and developer of the controversial SuperWave theory, argues that everything in the universe moves in waves, and that illness results when we stifle those waves within our body. Writer Roger Lewin explores the exercise regimen Dardik created to fight disease, as well as the scientific implications of the SuperWave theory. Dardik's early attempts to put his theory into practice in the field of health care got him banned from practicing medicine in the 1990s. But now, after a decade's worth of rigorous research that seems to support Dardik's SuperWave theory, scientists at such esteemed institutions as MIT, Harvard, and Stanford are signing on with Dardik's team to probe the possibilities. For example, Dardik's unique approach to physical exercise, based on his SuperWave Principle, has achieved some remarkable successes in reversing symptoms of chronic disease. Making Waves weaves together two fascinating stories: Dardik's personal progression from vascular surgeon to scientific iconoclast and pioneer, chronicling his struggle to convince the scientific community to take him seriously; and the evolution of his mind-expanding SuperWave Principle. Colleagues consider the impact of SuperWave theory on current thinking, from the universe to the subatomic world, and in the realms of biology, applied science, and medicine. The resulting read will interest those concerned with their own health and vitality as well as those curious about the fundamental workings of nature.
256pp, 9x6 ... Hardback
Victor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."
222pp ... Paperback
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Dr Arthur Janov
This fully revised edition of The Primal Scream is primarily focused on the nature and mechanisms of repression, and contains new case histories, observations and clinical research. Janov details with great clarity how ridding the mind of repressed, early childhood or infant trauma leads to the reduction of many psychological and physical problems that have their roots in protective responses to early trauma.
464pp, 8x5 ... Paperback
Matthew Mckay & David Harp
The basic premise of this remarkable therapy is that neural pathways strengthen with use and weaken with disuse. While certain events are likely to provoke a hardwired neural response in us, we are capable of creating new neural paths with no more than a thought. Instead of letting automatic triggers dictate our responses to painful events, we can use this characteristic of our nervous systems to short-circuit the responses that lead to painful thoughts and emotions. Neural Path Therapy begins with a primer on how neural paths trigger and then exaggerate emotional reactions like fear, anger, desire, and pain. The authors then go on to teach techniques that can remap your neural neighborhood, reducing or removing these unwanted reactions.
192pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
Eugene Kennedy and Sara Charles
In this newly revised, up-to-date edition of Kennedy’s classic guide to counselling, a distinguished psychiatrist joins him in providing essential advice for all those who help others. This exceptional and extraordinarily comprehensive work is an indispensable book for all those who, without extensive psychological training, must deal with troubled individuals—the confused, the grieving, the suffering, the immature, troubled individuals. Such persons may not be able to treat deep and long-standing emotional difficulties. They may not, in fact, be able to spend extended periods of time with many of those who seek their advice and assistance. But they can, Eugene Kennedy and Sara Charles insist, be more human with these individuals, marshalling their own resources of the spirit and capitalising on the strength of their own best instincts. This book is designed to help the helpers do exactly that by providing them with insights and practical applications of basic psychological knowledge. In more than forty chapters the authors set forth the basic rules of sound, effective counselling in such areas as anxiety, neurosis, depression, obsession, marriage, death, bereavement, suicide, schizophrenia, alcoholism and drugs. The meaning and symptoms of real emergencies are explored as are the aspects of interviewing, diagnosis, referral and emotional involvement.
418pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Mary Lee LaBay
In Past Life Regression: A Guide for Practitioners, Mary Lee shares knowledge gathered from years of personal and professional experience. The author demonstrates practical uses of techniques that allow the client to discover life purpose, aspects of their relationships, roots of disease, addiction, and phobias, as well as a wide range of other life issues. Through a series of detailed case studies and author commentary you will learn: What to do and what to avoid when facilitating past life regression; How anyone can achieve a regression easily and quickly, even with the most resistent client; Breakthrough techniques addressing physical ailments, relationship issues, addictions and more; What are step-ins, and why two lifetimes may appear to overlap; How to discern memory from fantasy, and how to research your findings; Common client experiences of death and life between lives; How and when to use specific therapeutic techniques for successful past life regression.
146pp, Oversize ... ISBN 1412012783 ... Paperback
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Joseph Murphy
One of the most widely read self-help books ever written, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind combines ancient wisdom with modern science to bring you actual techniques you can use in daily living. Here are the simple, scientifically proven techniques and the astonishing facts about how your subconscious powers can perform miracles of healing. How lung cancer has been cured and optic nerves made whole again. In this book you'll discover how to use the subconscious mind to: increase health and even cure the body of many common ailments; build the confidence to do the things you never dared - but always wanted - to do in life; overcome phobias, compulsions, and bad habits; and much more.
264pp ... Paperback
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Ann Weiser Cornell
Focusing is a gentle yet powerful skill that lets you tap into your body's wisdom and make positive changes in your life. The Power of Focusing shows readers how they can train themselves to learn this vital technique of self-exploration and self-discovery. "The Power of Focusing clarifies an essential human skill many of us have forgotten and takes it a quantum leap farther along its evolutionary path. Here are germinal teachings and deep human wisdom expressed in a way that can improve anyone's emotions, well-being, life." - Dan Millman. "Ann Weiser Cornell approaches Focusing with moment-by-moment sensitivity and years of depth. This is one of the most powerful therapeutic techniques of which I am aware and may even be said to be the basis of all good therapy." Jeffrey Mishlove.
128pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Alexander S Holub
The unconscious (subconscious) aspect of the human mind has long resisted efforts to penetrate its inner workings. This bold and dynamic book reveals the key to communicating directly with this little understood realm of our psyche. Exploring different facets of behaviour allows the clear analysis of the nature of what is hidden within the deeper elements of the mind and how controlling patterns of behaviour come to be. Written primarily for professional therapist and counsellors, these new carefully outlined and researched techniques can be incorporated easily into current talk therapy practice. Therapists using these techniques can insure prompt, successful, integrated changes - empowering their client's lives quickly and effectively. The lay reader is also rewarded with clear perceptions of why his/her life remains the same; stuck in outmoded behaviour patterns despite their best efforts to alter their thoughts and actions.
268pp, 8.5x5.5 ... ISBN 1893157067 ... Paperback
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Wayne Dyer
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Your Erroneous Zones, here is positive and practical advice for learning how to pull your own strings and live your life on your own terms. This is a book for people who act as victims, and feel that their lives are not really their own. Wayne Dyer argues that, by learning to take control of our fears, weaknesses and negative feelings, we can achieve freedom, and acquire the benefits that it brings. He delivers dynamic techniques for dealing with other people and avoiding victimization.
288pp, 7x4½ ... Paperback
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Arnold Mindell
A force underlies all actions and circumstance in the universe. You have the ability to tap into it, interact with it, and use it to heal yourself. This is science talking. Specifically, this is Dr. Arnold Mindell's new model of medicine based on the mind-blowing findings of quantum-physics pioneers who are reconfiguring the landscape of our belief structure almost daily. The Quantum Mind and Healing is Mindell's most important and best work yet. Mindell explains that you can access your body's own intelligence and self-healing abilities. Embracing both conventional and alternative medicine, he shows that to truly heal you need both medicine and your own natural wisdom. He goes well beyond theory, giving you simple techniques, guided exercises, and precise explanations of vital concepts that will enable you to uncover, understand, and eliminate the root causes of even your chronic symptoms and illnesses. This book can also help you overcome long-term emotional and behavioral patterns that may be keeping you from living your greatest potential.
272pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
Allen Roland
Allen Roland meets with his clients for only seven two-hour sessions, but the results are life-changing. These powerful cathartic sessions, along with Roland's original theory of the Unified Field of love, are presented in this authoritative and inspirational work - a manual for radical self-healing that distills the wisdom of the author's thirty years of innovative emotional healing practices. Radical Therapy provides the actual transcripts of Dr. Roland's seven proprietary cathartic emotional healing exercises that have led hundreds of clients to a radical change of behaviour, backed by theory and the author's own story of his self-healing. Readers can use this book as a powerful manual for effective short-term therapy, with or without a therapist. "A brilliant work from the heart, which will touch and challenge you to the core." - Stanley Krippner.
300pp, 8.5x5.5 ... Paperback
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Robert Ornstein
The right brain has historically been downplayed and misrepresented. Some have disregarded it as subhuman, even dangerous , while others considered it as the seat of creativity, of the soul, its potential ignored and wasted. In fact, Ornstein argues, while the left brain processes information, the right brain sets the context and provides the direction, allowing us to make sense of it all. A brilliant and illuminating work of an important thinker at the top of his game. The Right Mind is short but rich in its detail, lighthearted but profound in its conclusions.
232pp, 8x5.25 ... Paperback
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Hale Dwoskin
In 1952, Lester Levenson fell critically ill. His doctors informed him that he had only a few weeks to live. Lester turned to the laboratory within, seeking a way to revoke his pending death sentence. What he discovered in his exploration was that by releasing his non-love feelings, his health began to improve. Continuing with this experiment, he found that over a 3-month period, he had attained not only renewed health but actually perfect health and perfect peace of mind which lasted 42 years beyond his doctors’ expectations. It was from this state of mind, as well as his working with people over a 22-year period, that he inspired the creation in 1974 of what is now known as the Sedona Method. Hale Dwoskin met Lester Levenson in 1976 and was immediately struck by Lester and what he taught. After immersing himself in the releasing process, he developed a close relationship with Lester that lasted up until his death in 1994. Several years before his death, Lester transferred all of his copyrights to Hale and asked him to continue his work. The Sedona Method can allow you to effortlessly release limiting thoughts and feelings that have plagued you for years - even the very first time you use the program. We are all either our own worst enemy or our own best friend. We are constantly sabotaging our health, happiness and success unintentionally due to our unresolved thinking, beliefs and attitudes. Yet even when we know a thought, belief or attitude is not serving us, most of us find it very difficult to change it or let it go. The reason for this problem is very simple: our emotions colour, create, and lock these limitations in place, making the limitations supposedly “real.” It is our emotions that either put us into action or prevent us from acting. The Sedona Method will show you how to master your emotions, thereby mastering how you think and act. It is unique. It is not about treating symptoms - it's about addressing the thoughts and feelings that are at the root of the problem and releasing those thoughts and feelings.
432pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
Sandra Ingerman
With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts. Drawing on case studies from her ten years of teaching and practice, Ingerman illustrates what psyche or soul damage is and why it is a common yet little understood cause of phycholigical dysfunction. Her pioneering work has enabled thousands of individuals to overcome traumatic dissociation, depression, addictions, memory repression, and other problems through the age-old shamanic technique of soul retrieval.
240pp, 9.5x6.25 ... ISBN 0062504061 ... Paperback
Roger Callahan & Richard Trubo
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) has changed the way thousands of people overcome emotional problems. Over the last few years TFT has been recognised by psychotherapists around the world as an invaluable tool in the search for sustained relief from psychological and physical problems. Involving tapping energy points on the body and specific eye movements, it can be used to treat phobias, compulsions, trauma, anxiety, addictive urges, depression, obsessions, jet lag and physical pain.
240pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of our time but - until now - his work has seemed difficult for the general reader who lacks a background in consciousness studies or evolutionary theory. A Theory of Everything is a concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's world. Here at last is a book that will allow a general audience fully to understand what all the excitement has been about. In clear, non-technical language, Wilber presents complex, cutting-edge theories and models that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can be applied to real world problems in fields such as politics, medicine, business, education and the environment. Finally, he discusses daily practices that readers can take up in order to apply this integrative vision to their own, everyday lives. Theory of Everything is a compelling blueprint for the application of Wilber's ground-breaking theory in daily, practical situations.
256pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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William Redpath
Redpath initiates dialogue about trauma and its critical importance in our cognitive, emotional, and kinesthetic experience. Examining how trauma is stored energetically in the mindbody, he includes the transcript of a full session conducted under the rubric he, with clients, has developed, called Trauma Energetics. Using inner vision strategies drawn from physics, he attempts to connect to an elusive realm, namely the phenomena of awareness where there is no movement, where our life energy is systematically held. By identifying and focusing upon these areas without will or intention, he strategizes, we can begin to tap into the most profound aspects of our brain's self-healing capacities.
384pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Paul Newham
This work is a practical and imaginative guide to the way in which singing and the expressive use of the voice can facilitate therapy. Paul Newham examines how melody creation combined with story-telling in song, can alleviate certain emotional, psychosomatic and psychological symptoms. He describes how the sounds made by the human voice can be shaped compositionally to form songs which reveal and express the self. This volume provides practical support for non-clinical professionals working as group leaders and facilitators, who are interested in incorporating singing and vocal expression in their working method. He covers such themes as: the use of myth and archetype in narrative, the history of the use of song in human interaction, making personal biography into fiction in melody. The author draws on his own professional experience to describe therapeutic techniques and exercises which he has found to be effective, illustrating these with case studies. In particular, he focuses on the benefits of voicework for the mentally and physically disabled, and for children with special educational needs.
176pp, 9x6 ... ISBN 1853025909 ... Paperback
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This is a guide to how dramatic improvisation can be used in a therapeutic context to promote self-expression. Paul Newham demonstrates how voice, text and speech bring out aspects of character, personality, emotion and diversity of self image which facilitate self-understanding. He shows how vocal identity derives initially from the theatre of family interaction, and how self-transformation through dramatisation can clarify and deepen a person's sense of connectedness to others. The book details the ways in which dramatic voicework can be used in therapeutic settings to help people with emotional difficulties, mental distress and behavioural problems. It is illustrated with case examples taken from the author's direct experience of using the therapeutic techniques he describes. It should also inform the practice of non-clinical professionals working with groups to improve social interaction and communication.
176pp, 9x6 ... ISBN 1853025917 ... Paperback
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Ariel & Shya Kane
Working On Yourself Doesn’t Work reveals a revolutionary new approach that will allow you to reach a state of awareness and "centredness" that in the past took many years to achieve. This book contains the keys to transform your life. It is a radical departure from the concept of working on yourself to bring about change. There are no gimmicks to learn, no rules to live by, or preset paths to follow. The Kanes’ Instantaneous Transformation technology is about a change of states, a shifting of realities - hinged on the simple recognition of previously unexamined behaviour patterns or beliefs - which will produce a quantum shift in your life. "What the Kanes have to offer is so very simple...and yet so very profound. In the garden of all the flowers for personal transformation, and I have sampled many, this is the Rose." - Johnnie Jackson.
144pp, 8½x5½ ... Paperback
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