1st Edition

Discovering Your Self Breaking Walls – Building Bridges

By Reinhard Kowalski Copyright 1993
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account which examines the psychological walls we build around us. In it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, develops his model of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis in a personal, psychological, clinical and political way. The result is a psychological guide-book... Read more

List of Illustrations.  List of Exercises.  About the Exercises.  Foreword.  Introduction.  1. Setting the Scene  2. Psychotherapy and Personal Conflict  3. Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy  4. Beyond Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy  5. Boundaries  6. Activity Theory  7. The Growth Illusion  8. Psychosynthesis – The Higher Perspective  9. Stress  10. Domination and Partnership  11. Unification Process – German Example  12. Stepping Out.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Reinhard Kowalski, originally from Germany, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist with over 40 years of experience in the British National Health Service. Currently, he operates a private psychotherapy practice and consultancy. He is also a Mindfulness Teacher and a practitioner and teacher in AIT (Advanced Integrative Therapy) – an innovative form of Energy Psychology that leverages the Chakras to release trauma energy from the body-mind system. He has published widely, and in his Mindfulness and Mindbalancing Handbook (published by Routledge in 2011) he combines Yogic meditation practices with Mindfulness, providing practical tools for psychological therapy.

Review for the original edition:

‘The real strength and originality of the book is the way in which it travels into and through the personal, the theoretical, the clinical and the political and continually discovers the same themes and the same issues arising in all if them.’ – John Rowan