The Psyche of the Body: A Jungian Approach to Psychosomatics [Hardcover]
Author: Denise Gimenez Ramos | Language: English | ISBN: 1583918973 | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Psyche of the Body: A Jungian Approach to Psychosomatics
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The Psyche of the Body is a passionate and well-informed plea for a Jungian version of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy.
Illustrated by vivid clinical illustrations of case histories, The Psyche of the Body reviews the long history of psychosomatic medicine and models of the relationship between psyche and body that have evolved over time, and presents a full revision of research in the field over the last twenty years. It presents a much-needed theoretical model together with practical guidelines that demonstrate how the psychological aspects of specific illnesses should be handled in therapy and analysis.
Practicing and training Jungian analysts, as well as all those involved in clinical treatment, will find the interdisciplinary approach to psychosomatic medicine promoted in this book fascinating reading.
Books with free ebook downloads available The Psyche of the Body: A Jungian Approach to Psychosomatics Illustrated by vivid clinical illustrations of case histories, The Psyche of the Body reviews the long history of psychosomatic medicine and models of the relationship between psyche and body that have evolved over time, and presents a full revision of research in the field over the last twenty years. It presents a much-needed theoretical model together with practical guidelines that demonstrate how the psychological aspects of specific illnesses should be handled in therapy and analysis.
Practicing and training Jungian analysts, as well as all those involved in clinical treatment, will find the interdisciplinary approach to psychosomatic medicine promoted in this book fascinating reading.
- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (December 23, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1583918973
- ISBN-13: 978-1583918975
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,142,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Ramos nails the nexus of body-mind relationship by correlating studies in Western medicine with principles and research in depth psychology. This nexus has long been understood in other cultures and is the basis of treatment for indigenous healers and Chinese medicine.
Now finally the West is beginning to document medical and psychological research that supports and elucidates the implications of the body-mind nexus. But the field is young and not widely accepted.
Ramos, a psychologist and Jungian analyst, makes a fine contribution in the Psyche of the Body. She cites extensive studies to help Westerners understand why in some individuals inner conflicts may express primitively as physical symptoms and as neurotic or psychotic disturbances in others.
She cites the "symbol" as the missing link in this budding field. All human meaning is organized around archetypal patterns. And while we can't know the archetype per se, our physical and mental health depends on expressing something of the all-important symbol.
However, in some individuals, archetypal disturbance due to difficulties in a developmental stage may make the symbol of the effecting archetype inaccessible. It remains stuck in the body where it cannot be expressed. And if not expressed as neurotic or psychotic attitudes and behavior (which are treatable), it may express "primitively" as physical symptoms and disease, sometimes fatal. Moreover, research indicates possible correlations between types of unexpressed meaning and types of disease.
Ramos is exploring nothing less than the frontier of Western medicine. Unless the mind-body nexus is granted full respect and funding, prevention and healing will remain limited and costs will continue to escalate.
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