1st Edition

The Snake in the Clinic Psychotherapy's Role in Medicine and Healing

By Guy Dargert Copyright 2016
    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is for psychotherapists and would make a wise companion for anyone starting out in the profession. It entreats readers to be mindful of symptoms, how not to confuse symptoms with illness and how both can be read as paths to the deeper reaches of the psyche where the cause of illness lies.

    Foreword -- Preface -- Psychotherapy and health -- Imaginal healing -- Signs, symptoms, and metaphors -- The origins of Western medicine -- Apart from or a part of? -- The personal daimon -- The daimonic bodymind -- The psychophysical environment -- Anima mundi—the world psyche -- Dancing with the devil -- In conclusion -- Copyright information (in order of appearance)

    Biography

    Dargert, Guy