| Description |
xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The rise and demise of a psychotherapist. The foundations for new ideas ; Entering the world of the professional ; Civil rights, feminism, commuinity [i.e. community], and Indian medicine women ; Shifting paradigms ; Some difficult years ; Moving in new directions ; Facing addictions ; Out of the old, into the new ; A new paradigm emerges ; Participating, healing, recovering, and living in process--it all comes together -- Introduction to living process and deep process work. The living process system ; Confronting and healing the addictive process ; Deep process ; Doing living process work ; Doing deep process work -- The scientific paradigm, psychotherapy and the living process paradigm. Are helpers helpful? ; The existing scientific paradigm ; The mechanistic paradigm and psychology ; The mechanistic scientific paradigm and psychotherapy ; Confronting and healing the addictive process ; The interface of the living process system and recovery ; The new paradigm ; Concerns and questions, implications, and visions |
| Summary |
Applicable at many levels - the personal, professional, scientific, political, and philosophical - Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science offers not only a method but also a process for evolving solutions in a world constrained by the scientific worldview. With Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science Schaef again shows herself to be one of the most creative thinkers of our time, taking a field she has loved - psychotherapy - and using it as a springboard for rethinking ourselves and our world. A crucial work by a trenchant thinker, Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science will inspire thought, ignite controversy, and, most importantly, facilitate healing |
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With candor, compassion, and insight, Anne Wilson Schaef convincingly explores the unspoken limitations of the scientific paradigm upon which this society is built and the frightening implications of a psychotherapy that is derived from that paradigm. She persuasively demonstrates that the field of psychotherapy as we know it not only cannot work, it works against us, supporting personal and societal addictions. The author of several groundbreaking books, Schaef is known as a visionary with the practical applications to back up the truth. In her long-awaited Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science, she presents a new approach for healing the whole person that emerges from and supports a new scientific paradigm, one that allows us to not only heal ourselves but heal the planet as well |
| Analysis |
Psychotherapy - Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Compulsive behavior -- Alternative treatment.
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Psychotherapy -- Philosophy.
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Holistic Health.
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Psychotherapy.
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| LC no. |
90056473 |
| ISBN |
0062507168 |
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0062507826 (acid-free paper) |
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0062508334 (paperback) |
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