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Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy : A Ritual Approach by Erik D Goodwyn

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Author: Erik D Goodwyn
Page Count: 240 pages
Published Date: 28 Mar 2016
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1381/9781138120266.jpg
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781138120280
Download Link: Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy A Ritual Approach
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Ritual scholars note that rituals have powerful psychological, social and even biological effects, but these findings have not yet been integrated into the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry. In Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy Erik D. Goodwyn attempts to rectify this by reviewing the most pertinent work done in the area of ritual study and applying it to the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry, providing a new framework with which to approach therapy. The book combines ritual study with depth psychology, placebo study, biogenetic structuralism and cognitive anthropology to create a model of interdisciplinary psychology. Goodwyn uses examples of rituals from history, folklore and cross-cultural study and uncovers the universal themes embedded within them as well as their psychological functions. As ritual scholars show time and again how Western culture and medicine is 'ritually impoverished' the application of ritual themes to therapy yields many new avenues for healing. The interdisciplinary model used here suggests new ways to approach problems with basic identity, complicated grief, anxiety, depression meaninglessness and a host of other problems encountered in clinical work. The interdisciplinary approach of this accessibly-written book will appeal to psychotherapists, psychiatrists and Jungian analysts as well as those in training and readers with an interest in the science behind ritual.

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