Subtitles:
Egocide, symbolic death, and new life
A Jungian approach using the creative arts
A Jungian approach using the creative arts
Edition:
A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book
Place of Publication:
New York, New York
Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Copyright Date:
1993
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0874776759
Source:
Dorothy Kyle
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
RC 537 .R6394 1993
Accession Number:
000455
Keyword Subject Headings:
Suicide -- Prevention
Imagination -- Therapeutic use
Change (Psychology)
Depression, Mental -- Treatment
Imagination -- Therapeutic use
Change (Psychology)
Depression, Mental -- Treatment
User Notes:
Hardback, xiv + 263 pp. including illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.
This book has the exact same contents as Transforming Depression: Healing the
soul through creativity, #000457, also in the OFJ library. Different subtitles and publisher.
Contents include:
PART I. Background and context
1. Understanding depression and the quest for meaning
2. Knowing suicide and its creative potential
3. Recognizing and treating depressed and suicidal people
PART II. An innovative way of healing depression
4. Egocide and transformation: A new therapeutic approach
5. Healing images: Symbols of transformation
PART III. Four transforming journeys
6. Rebecca: Traversing the dark night of the soul
7. Gary: The dance of the dragon
8. Sharon: Death of the inner witch and birth of the creative self
9. Paul: Egocide and the Buddha
PART IV: Spiral of change: Symbolic death and new life
10. Crisis points: How egocide can help
Epilogue
