A healing conversation : how healing happens / Neville Symington.

By:

Symington, Neville [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Karnac, 2006Description: x, 147 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1855753596
9781855753594

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

150.1952 22

LOC classification:

RC480.8 .R96 2006

Contents:

1. The question : an intellectual solution -- 2. The meaning of emotion -- 3. Emotional development -- 4. Communication and emotion -- 5. Communication and representation -- 6. The case of pseudo-maturity.

Review: "How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. the egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being." "The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing. He believes that this has existed wherever there has been true friendship within civilization, and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis attempts to distil this essence and apply it in a clinical setting."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index.

"How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. the egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being." "The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing. He believes that this has existed wherever there has been true friendship within civilization, and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis attempts to distil this essence and apply it in a clinical setting."--BOOK JACKET.

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