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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
In explicating how language works in therapy, he ranges widely,
citing and critiquing Lacan, Bateson, Ackerman, and Weakland, among
others. But the heart of this book can be found in the detailed
conversations between client and therapist that show
solution-focused therapy in action.
"The Body is very often the personification of this shadow of the
ego. Sometimes it forms the skeleton in the cupboard," wrote Carl
Jung, "and everybody naturally wants to get rid of such a thing."
Through the symbolism of illness and physical symptoms, our bodies
reflect the darkness and the light the shadow holds for us until we
are ready to accept it. It is the shadow-face of our souls that
holds the light and the darkness until we are strong enough to face
and heal what we have previously denied or rejected about
ourselves. Our bodies and their ailments are not our enemies, and
neither are our shadows. The shadow reveal the negative ego
patterns we had previously rejected or denied, through the messages
of our illnesses, so we can recognize, forgive, and heal them. The
shadow is the ally of our true self and the enemy of our negative
egos.
"A heartwarming and inspiring story that will change the way you
look at life." --Vikas Swarup, New York Times bestselling author of
Slumdog Millionaire "An Eat Pray Love-like memoir." --Pam Grout, #1
New York Times bestselling author of E-Squared When doctors have
all but given up, when a diagnosis eludes you, and when every test
result raises more questions than answers, how do you save
yourself? By the time Amy B. Scher was twenty-eight-years-old, she
had lived through almost a decade of misdiagnoses, excruciating
pain, brain lesions, bone marrow biopsies, blood transfusions, and
multiple hospital stays to treat her late-stage, chronic Lyme
disease. Taking forty-four pills a day and deteriorating rapidly,
she consulted with more than sixty doctors, including the top
experts in Los Angeles, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in
Minneapolis, and a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. When the
best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and
potentially terminal, it was up to Amy to blaze her own path
forward. Then, in a stroke of serendipity, she heard about an
experimental treatment only available in India--human embryonic
stem cell therapy--which had as much probability of killing her as
it did of curing her. She boarded a plane with no idea of what
awaited her: culture shock, radical medical treatment, and most
surprising of all, life-affirming love. With warmth and humor,
Amy's powerful and uplifting story of sheer determination is for
anyone who believes in--or doubts--the existence of miracles. It is
for anyone who wants desperately to believe in the power of the
human spirit when it seems that all hope is lost. For everyone who
has suffered from chronic pain, grappled with an autoimmune
condition, fought for a diagnosis, or trusted their gut and their
body when no one else did, Amy is a living example of how our
instinct to survive can propel us onward.
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