Past Lives Therapy [Hardcover]

Morris Netherton (Author), Nancy Shiffrin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: Morrow; 1st edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688032982
• ISBN-13: 978-0688032982
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,473,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have We Met Before?, March 27, 2001

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Holy Olio "holy_olio" (Grand Rapids, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Past Lives Therapy (Hardcover)

"Almost every therapy assumes that traumas from the past are influential in the present. This book reveals that Past Lives Therapy differs from traditional therapies because of how far back it goes. Without the use of hypnosis, and without requiring the patient's belief in reincarnation, Dr. Netherton probes the unconscious mind and unleashes a flood of traumatic events that go back beyond childhood, beyond the prenatal and birth periods, and into a past life." -- from the dustjacket

Most past lives therapists and other past lives researchers rely on hypnosis. Morris Netherton doesn't, and AFAIK he doesn't particularly approve of the use of hypnosis in past lives therapy. His book remains my favorite, but it is not in print. Any used book search engine will turn up multiple copies of the book however. That said, some of the books are not about past life recall per se.

In 1984 I spoke with Netherton in person regarding his book, and at that time he'd indicated that second book was in the offing. This second title never materialized. I have a feeling that despite its journey from hardcover (that's the ISBN given above, I no longer have my paperback version) to paperback, the first book wasn't that great a seller, and his publisher decided it would lose money in an environment where a dozen or more titles on the same subject were available or soon to be.

The AAPL, an organization founded by Dr. Netherton, has a website that indicates the impending publication of a series of four new books, possibly more suitable for therapists.

Regardless, this book is highly recommended, and there should be little trouble finding a used copy.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book On the Value of Past Life Therapy, February 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Past Lives Therapy (Hardcover)

Recently I've been reading every book on past lives that I can get my hands on and this one, which I checked out from the library since it was published in 1978, is one of the best. It shows, very graphically and explicitly, how a past life trauma can be triggered in the early stages of the present life and how this can affect the patient adversely. Each chapter in the book is devoted to a symptom, e.g. alcoholism, impotence. Dr. Netherton states that the past lives reported on in the book are negative since the patients who came to him had serious problems and had been triggered by traumatic events, vs. happy people who would most likely have positive and happy past lives. I found this book to be amazing in how precisely he isolated the specific past lives that were causing the problems then was able to pinpoint the moment of the trigger, usually caused in birth, like some oddly distressing condition in the birth, an odd event, which the patient was able to recall vividly. His method for releasing the pattern is to have the patient repeat the troubling phrases over and over again, until they lose their significance.

Facinating book, definitely in the top 5 of the dozens that I've read.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting, June 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Past Lives Therapy (Paperback)

I came upon this book just by chance, or maybe not? The case studies are fascinating. What amazes me is that all this can be done without being hypnotized, that all this information is at our fingertips. I would highly recommend this book to anyone searching for answers to ailments or problems that seem to come from nowhere.