The healing path : a soul approach to illness

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The healing path : a soul approach to illness

Marc Ian Barasch ; foreword by Bernie S. Siegel

Arkana, 1995, c1993

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  • pbk.

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First published: G.P.Putman's Sons , 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p.[408]-416) and index

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Description

When the author discovered he had thyroid cancer, he pursued the lessons that his life-threatening illness offered. In this book he sets out the stages of illness and recovery, revealing in his view much about the human spirit, and the relationship of illness and healing to the inner life of each individual. This will be of interest to anyone who has coped with or now faces serious illness, or is interested in health.

Table of Contents

  • Prologue: Where Ladders Begin
  • The Varieties of Healing Experience
  • The Healing Path: Maps for the Journey
  • The Tangled Roots of Disease
  • The Herald: The Unheard Call
  • The Symptom: The Voice of the Bodymind?
  • Diagnosis: The Power of Naming
  • The Meeting with the Doctor
  • Big Guns, Magic Bullets: The Citadel of Medicine
  • Taking Back Control: Finding New Footing
  • The Quest for Medicine: A World of Alternatives
  • The Helper: The Way of the Wounded Healer
  • Vision Quest: Discovering the Healer Within
  • Inner Work: The Recovery of Feeling
  • Coming Alive: Exploring the Healing Selves
  • The Social Fabric and the Loom of the Self
  • The Return: Treasures from the Dark
  • Epilogue: A Second Birth.

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