Rating:
Date added: 9.1.2015
543 616
FB2PDFEPUB
This book is built around a full-length case history of integrative healing with Ken, a patient who suffered from severe PTSD symptoms after surviving unimaginably cruel physical, emotional and sexual abuse from earliest childhood. It is a study bothMoreThis book is built around a full-length case history of integrative healing with Ken, a patient who suffered from severe PTSD symptoms after surviving unimaginably cruel physical, emotional and sexual abuse from earliest childhood. It is a study both of psychiatric and psychological methods of treating the inner anxiety, distortion and fragmentation that follows abuse and also of spiritual healings that promote harmony, wholeness, integration and fulfillment.Chief among these spiritual approaches is the Big Mind Big Heart Process developed by Zen master Genpo Merzel Roshi, a powerful means of bringing people quickly into an experience of enlightened mind. With appropriate alterations of technique, this method also can produce remarkable healing and integration of the shattered self after severe abuse. The interweaving of the psychological with the spiritual in this book also includes Karmic Therapy, discussed in detail in the author’s first book, and indigenous shamanic healing practices.This book is unique in its multidimensional approach to understanding and treating psychiatric disorders that have become tragically prevalent in our time. It also offers a theoretical model and practical guidelines drawn from clinical experience that can be applied to integrative treatment in general. This model brings together the Physical, Psychological, Relational, Karmic, Energetic, and Transcendent realms of experience into a coherent framework that explains, among other things, why healers using different methods and concepts can’t communicate well with one another.The book will fascinate psychiatrists, psychotherapists, shamanic practitioners, spiritual healers and all those interested in the interface between body, mind and spirit – between the individual ego and the mysterious Oneness that embraces everything in the universe and beyond. This is a read that will appeal to the adventurer in all of us who thrills at each new twist and turn along an unknown path.The author is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen Buddhist monk and shamanic healer. From his extensive training and experience, Dr. Proskauer weaves together tools and teachings from many traditions and shows us how and when to apply them so that healing can be truly multidimensional and integrative. BIG HEART HEALING: A Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse by Stephen Proskauer
