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Healing in Psychotherapy: The Process of Holistic Change (Perspectives in psychotherapy)

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Diane Shainberg is a master of healing and the healing process. incorporating eastern (buddhist) concepts of the mind with western concepts of psychology and the "therapeutic" process, she manages to detail what cannot be detailed; she undergoes the expression of healing in words and scenarios that can only be imagined by that part of the mind that believes in things unseen. many clinicians pay homage to tomes such as dsm-iv-tr, etc. without understanding that the contents of such material is only relative truth and not Absolute. many clinicians have never taken time or undertaken a path of inner exploration, hence they continue to speak in terms such as "the borderline patient in room 12," or "the bipolar patient," rarely if ever, considering that the patient is a person first, not a diagnosis. reading shainberg is like returning to the primordial form of understanding human nature as it applies to human beings; in essence, understanding and allowing one's self to simply digest the wisdom and compassion flowing within these pages will, by force of nature, impel one toward following one's heart wisdom and one's mind wisdom, being able to dissolve the seeming duality between them. just read this book. don't analyze it. don't theorize it. don't memorize it. just let it be. live it. your life and that of those who come to you for assistance with their healing will be thankful for a life of less suffering and more compassion.